Different secretory repertoires control the biomineralization processes of prism and nacre deposition of the pearl oyster shell

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 109; no. 51; pp. 20986 - 20991
• Main Authors: Marie, Benjamin, Joubert, Caroline, Tayalé, Alexandre, Zanella-Cléon, Isabelle, Belliard, Corinne, Piquemal, David, Cochennec-Laureau, Nathalie, Marin, Frédéric, Gueguen, Yannick, Montagnani, Caroline
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 18.12.2012; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: Animal organs; Animals; Bioengineering; Biological Evolution; Biological Sciences; Biomaterials; Biomineralogy; Calcium Carbonate - chemistry; Datasets; Epithelium; Evolution; Evolution, Molecular; Evolutionary biology; Gene Expression Regulation; Genes; Immunohistochemistry; Life Sciences; Molecular Sequence Data; Mollusca - physiology; Mollusks; Nacre - metabolism; Oysters; Pearls; Pinctada - chemistry; Pinctada - physiology; Polymorphism; Protein Structure, Tertiary; Proteins; Proteome; Proteomics - methods; Shells; Transcription, Genetic; Transcriptome; mantle; evolution; mollusk shell matrix proteins; transcriptome; proteome

Mollusca evolutionary success can be attributed partly to their efficiency to sustain and protect their soft body with an external biomineralized structure, the shell. Current knowledge of the protein set responsible for the formation of the shell microstructural polymorphism and unique properties r...