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Of all the minerals that have been associated with biomineralization, carbonates are the most obvious. Microbially induced calcium carbon- ate precipitation (MICCP), most widely studied branch of...
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The present study deals with the influence of two different types of urease: plant and bacterial enzymes fractionated from Canavlia ensiformis and Bacillus pasteurii, respectively, on the precipitation of calcium carbonate polymorphs in solutions of calcium salts and urea at room temperature. Our previous investigations have shown that calcium carbonate polymorphs and strontium and barium ...
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Biomineralization is a hot topic in the area of materials, and this volume in the Metals Ions in Life Sciences series takes a systematic approach, dealing with all aspects from the fundamentals to applications. Key biological features of biomineralization, such as gene directed growth and the role of enzymes are covered, as are new areas, including copper/zinc in the jaws of invertebrates or ...
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• Biologically induced mineralization (BIM) modification of chemical environment like change in pH, or redox potential etc. Leads to mineralization 5. CALCIUM CARBONATE BIOMINERAL • Marine organisms such algae, sponges, corals, molluscs form MgCO3 containing calcium carbonate in large amounts as a photosynthetic activity.
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The calicoblast cells secrete the organic matrix, which forms the protein network around the calcium carbonate crystals of the coral exoskeleton and controls the flux of ions, including calcium, into and out of the cell, which is vital for biomineralization (reviewed in Falini et al., 2015). The calicoblast model system has led to a ...
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The pr ocess of biomineralisation is realised by the use of organic macromolecules secreted by the organism. A deeper understanding of the mineralisation process and the mimicking of complex...
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Biomineralization is the safe, environmentally friendly technology that's the basis of BioSqueeze®. ... Once in place, the fluid begins its transformation into crystalline calcium carbonate - a limestone-like material that binds to rock, cement, and steel, permanently sealing any and all leakage pathways. ...
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Jul 31, 2022In biomineralization, the resulting calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate biominerals have properties, superior to any geologically or man-made material, that generally correlate with their specific composition and structure.
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Biomineralization has mostly been studied in the class Anthozoa (Phylum Cnidaria), but very little is known about the evolution of the calcified skeleton in the class Hydrozoa or about the processes leading to its formation. The evolution of the calcified skeleton is here investigated in the hydrozoan family Hydractiniidae.
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The process of shell creation is known as biomineralisation ... Then, pulling the required ingredients from the extra-pallial fluid, the animal builds a new layer of calcium carbonate shell, either calcite or aragonite. A photomicrograph of shell structures. The mechanism that controls the creation of shells is still a mystery.
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Dec 9, 2021Our approach is to compare and contrast the ion pathways involving calcium, phosphate, and carbonate in three very different organisms: the enormously abundant unicellular marine coccolithophores, the well investigated sea urchin larval model for single crystal formation, and the complex pathways used by vertebrates to form their bones.
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Biomineralization is a naturally occurring process in living organisms. In this review, we discuss microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) in detail. In the MICP process, urease plays a major role in urea hydrolysis by a wide variety of microorganisms capable of producing high levels of urease.
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Amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) is the amorphous and least stable polymorph of calcium carbonate.ACC is extremely unstable under normal conditions and is found naturally in taxa as wide-ranging as sea urchins, corals, mollusks, and foraminifera. It is usually found as a monohydrate, holding the chemical formula CaCO 3 ·H 2 O; however, it can also exist in a dehydrated state, CaCO 3.
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1. Introduction. In nature, calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) exists in ores, such as limestone, calcite, and chalk, as well as in clam, oyster and other shells [1-3].According to the crystal structure, it is mainly divided into aragonite, calcite, and vaterite [4, 5].Micro and nano CaCO 3 s are important inorganic chemical products. They are non-toxic, odourless, and fine white powder produced by ...
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Calcium carbonate has six known polymorphs, three of which are anhydrous crystalline (ie, calcite, aragonite, and vaterite), ... In recent years, our research group has been studying a unique biomineralization process of calcium deposition and mobilization in the freshwater crayfish, ...
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although the polymorphism of calcium carbonate is well known, and its polymorphs—calcite, aragonite, and vaterite—have been highly studied in the context of biomineralization, polyamorphism is a much more recently discovered phenomenon, and the existence of more than one amorphous phase of calcium carbonate in biominerals has only very recently .
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Amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) is a metastable phase often observed during low temperature inorganic synthesis and biomineralization. ACC transforms with aging or heating into a less hydrated form, and with time crystallizes to calcite or aragonite.
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Calcite is the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate and is also present in some mollusk shells and many other mineralized tissues of marine organisms. Addadi and Weiner addressed some key questions in biomineralization, but used the techniques of solid state stereochemistry---a true collaboration.
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2.3 Biomineralization assays To study effects on carbonate mineralization, B-4 agar plates or liquid cultures were incubated at 28 or 10 C for 1- 3 weeks. CaCO3 (B-4CO) or Ca3(PO4/2 (B-4CP) were used as a source of calcium replacing the calcium acetate of the medium to evaluate different calcium mobilization activi-ties of the strains applied.
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Nov 30, 2020In 1903, Nadson showed that calcium carbonate deposits in Lake Veisowe, Russia, could have originated from bacterial activity . Later on, Drew in 1911 suggested that marine denitrifying bacteria played an active role in the precipitation of calcium carbonates with a potential geological significance of this process .
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This work systematically explores the biomineralization of calcium phosphate (CaP) and carbonate (CaCO₃) within chitosan/iota-carrageenan multilayer films. Multilayer films of chitosan and iota-carrageenan (up to 128-coupled layers) were prepared on glass substrates by a layer-by-layer dip-coating technique.
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Here, we first report amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) precipitation by cellular biomineralization in primary mantle cell cultures of Pinctada fucata. Through real-time PCR and western blot analyses, we demonstrate that mantle cells retain the ability to synthesize and secrete ACCBP, Pif80 and nacrein in vitro.
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likely for earthworm calcium carbonate granules; rather the calcium carbonate production appears to be related to pH regulation [44-48] with calcium carbonate precipi-tating when HCO 3 − ions are in excess of those required to buffer tissue fluid pH. Thus the granules could be viewed as an excretory product.
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The avian eggshell is a natural protective envelope that relies on the phenomenon of biomineralization for its formation. The shell is made of calcium carbonate in the form of calcite, which contains hundreds of proteins that interact with the mineral phase controlling its formation and structural organization, and thus determine the mechanical properties of the mature biomaterial. We describe ...
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Microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) refers to the formation of calcium carbonate in the presence of the different metabolic activities of microorganisms, including urealysis, photosynthesis, denitrification, ammonification, sulfate reduction and methane oxidation [1, 2].It is widely used to repair cracks of constructions and roads, solidify sand and gravels, manufacture self ...
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These intracellular inclusions of hydrated amorphous calcium carbonates (ACCs) were first described in Lake Geneva (Switzerland) and are the result of a novel biomineralization process. The genus Tetraselmis includes more than 30 species that have been widely studied since the description of the type species in 1878.
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Apr 5, 2021Originally, the biomineralization of calcium carbonate was mainly thought to be an extracellular process in microorganisms; however, recent studies have shown that the formation of intracellular ACC inclusions is a widespread phenomenon in both prokaryote and eukaryote unicellular organisms. These inclusions can be observed using SEM and TEM ...
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Abstract Recently, as a mimic of the natural biomineralization process, the use of carbonic anhydrase (CA), which is an enzyme catalyzing fast reversible hydration of carbon dioxide to bicarbonate, has been suggested for biological conversion of CO (2) to valuable chemicals.
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Here, examples of hydrogels in biological, as well as synthetic, bio-inspired systems are discussed. Particular attention is given to understanding the physical versus chemical effects of a broad range of hydrogel matrices and their role in directing polymorph selectivity and morphological control in the calcium carbonate system.
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This review discusses the major theories on the mechanisms of biomineral nucleation with a focus on the importance of protein-driven liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). It also presents the current understanding of the role of IDPs in the formation of calcium carbonate biominerals and predicts their potential ability to drive LLPS.
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Calcium carbonate has great scientific relevance in biomineralization and geosciences, forming enormous scales of biological (reefs and ocean sediments) and geological origin, which bind a huge amount of CO 2 and affect the chemistry of ocean water and, with it, Earth's atmosphere and climate.Scale formation (incrustation) also affects daily life, industry, and technology and can require the ...
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CaCO 3 is spontaneously generated in the unstable amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) phase, with two hydrated metastable forms and three anhydrous crystalline polymorphs in the order of their stability [22,23,24]. Calcium silicate (CaSi) is widely used as a bioceramic, bioglass, and cement, especially in orthopedic and oral-maxillofacial ...
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calcium carbonate particles have potential applications in the pharmaceutical industry, and ... Stabilization of ACC in biomineralization is thought to occur via the introduction of different additive species including ions such as magnesium, phosphates, and silicates, chitosan and chitin (biological polysaccharides), and biological proteins ...
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Biomineralization is a ubiquitous process by which living organisms produce minerals that they use for many different functions ( i.e. protection, gravity sensing) ( 1 ). The formation of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) or phosphate biominerals requires high local concentrations of calcium.
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we discovered that diverse unicellular cyanobacterial taxa form intracellular amorphous ca-carbonates with at least two different distribution patterns, suggesting the existence of at least two distinct mechanisms of biomineralization: ( i) one with ca-carbonate inclusions scattered within the cell cytoplasm such as in ca. g. lithophora, and ( .
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Scientific interest in biomineralisation The remarkable control that nature exerts in the growth and development of a seashell has attracted the attention of materials scientists. The way in which the calcium carbonate is laid down in a proteincarbohydrate scaffold is the focus of much attention.
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Biomineralization of calcium carbonates and their engineered applications: a review Authors Navdeep K Dhami 1, M Sudhakara Reddy, Abhijit Mukherjee Affiliation 1 Department of Biotechnology, Thapar University Patiala, India. PMID: 24194735 PMCID: PMC3810791 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00314
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Amorphous calcium carbonate is produced as spherical particles (see Figure) via in‐situ generation of CO2 by hydrolysis of dialkyl carbonates in aqueous solution of CaCl2 at room temperature. This method of synthesis (precipitation) allows detailed studies of the particle formation process. Temperature‐dependent results are rationalized in terms of a phase diagram that assumes a liquid ...
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Biomineralization is a widespread biological process in the formation of shells, teeth, or bones. Matrix proteins in biominerals have been widely investigated for their roles in directing biomineralization processes such as crystal morphologies, polymorphs, and orientations. ... Figure 4 Crystallization of calcium carbonate with protein ...
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In this chapter recent insights into the biomineralization processes of calcium carbonate are presented. The control over crystal nucleation, growth, shape and internal symmetry of the crystalline elements are mediated by specialized biomacromolecules.
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