Silicon Biotechnology: Proteins, Genes and Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Biosilica Nanofabrication Offer New Routes to Polysiloxane Synthesis

Organosilicon Chemistry Set: From Molecules to Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 5-16

  Morse, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosilica; Biosynthesis; Biotechnology; Catalysis; DNA; Gene; Protein; Silicatein

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; CLONING; DNA; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; SILANES; SILICA; SILICONES;

BIOSILICA; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; MACROMOLECULAR TEMPLATES; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; SILICATEIN; STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS;

BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84959122031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527620777.ch2c     Document Type: Chapter

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