Dual Gene Repertoires for Larval and Adult Shells Reveal Molecules Essential for Molluscan Shell Formation

• Published in: Molecular biology and evolution Vol. 35; no. 11; pp. 2751 - 2761
• Main Authors: Zhao, Ran, Takeuchi, Takeshi, Luo, Yi-Jyun, Ishikawa, Akito, Kobayashi, Tatsushi, Koyanagi, Ryo, Villar-Briones, Alejandro, Yamada, Lixy, Sawada, Hitoshi, Iwanaga, Shunsuke, Nagai, Kiyohito, Satoh, Noriyuki, Endo, Kazuyoshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Animal Shells - metabolism; Animals; Calcium carbonate; Calcium Carbonate - metabolism; Carbonic anhydrase; Carbonic Anhydrases - metabolism; Chitin; Crassostrea - genetics; Crassostrea - metabolism; Crassostrea gigas; Crystallization; Discoveries; Exoskeleton; Exoskeletons; Gene expression; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; Larva - metabolism; Metamorphosis; Mollusks; Oysters; Polysaccharides; Protein Domains; Protein families; Proteins; Proteomics; Saccharides; Shellfish Proteins - metabolism; Shells; Shells (structural forms); Transcriptomics; Von Willebrand factor

Molluscan shells, mainly composed of calcium carbonate, also contain organic components such as proteins and polysaccharides. Shell organic matrices construct frameworks of shell structures and regulate crystallization processes during shell formation. To date, a number of shell matrix proteins (SMP...