Self-Assembly of Highly Phosphorylated Silaffins and Their Function in Biosilica Morphogenesis

By N. Kröger, S. Lorenz, E. Brunner, M. Sumper. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Molecular Biology, Paleontology

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• An Overview of Biomineralization Processes and the Problem of the Vital Effect (2003, background): “Using a combination of two intracellular processes, diatoms first polymerize silica into specialized vesicles on an organic matrix of polypeptides (Swift and Wheeler 1991, 1992; Kroger et al. 1999, 2002).”
• Si and C interactions in the world ocean: Importance of ecological processes and implications for the role of diatoms in the biological pump (2006, background): “…novel peptides known as silaffins and long-chain polyamines (LCPA) from diatom cell walls, which can precipitate Si as nanospheres in vitro suggesting that they participate in biomineralization processes within the SDV [Kröger et al., 1999, 2002; Poulsen et al., 2003; Poulsen and Kröger, 2004].”
• The life of diatoms in the world's oceans (2009, background): “Three categories of molecule normally embedded directly within the wall can precipitate silica in artificial systems: silaffins, which are highly modified phosphoprotein”
• Microbial structuring of marine ecosystems (2007, background): “Although bacteria use their ectohydrolases to solubilize organic matter, the action of these enzymes also removes the protective proteoglycan silaffins from the silicon frustule”
• Chitin and collagen as universal and alternative templates in biomineralization (2010, background): “Also, collagen differs from the cationic polypeptides like silaffines (well described as templates for silicification in diatoms (Kröger et al. 1999, 2002)), which in turn could not be calcified.”
• Understanding Diatom Cell Wall Silicification—Moving Forward (2018, methodology): “Fortunately, both biochemical (Kröger et al., 1999, 2000, 2002; Wenzl et al., 2008; Scheffel et al., 2011; Kotzsch et al., 2017) and transcript response Frontiers in Marine Science | www.frontiersin.org 3 April 2018 | Volume 5 | Article 125 FIGURE 2 | Formation of the T. pseudonana valve.”