Abstract

Ethylenediamine‐tetraacetic acid extracted water‐soluble matrix proteins in molluscan
shells secreted from the mantle epithelia are believed to control crystal nucleation …

Biomineralization is the process of the formation of crystal structures that is under biological
control. Living organisms produce structures such as bone, teeth, otoliths, otoconia or shells …

This chapter describes biominerals and the marine organisms that produce them. The
proteins involved in biomineralization, as well as functions of the biomineralized structures …

Biomineralization processes are frequently found in nature. Living organisms use various
strategies to create highly ordered and hierarchical mineral structures under physiologic …

Macromolecules in biominerals of aquatic animals and plants play important roles in the
regulation of mineralization. In the past several years, most macromolecules including …

The field of biomineralization has expanded over the past decade, and there is now a
growing database of information on the molecular participants in nucleation and crystal …

We created artificial proteins that contained repeats of a short peptide motif, Asn-Gly-Asx. In
nature this motif is repeated within shell proteins as an idiosyncratic domain, while in vitro it …

Post-translational modifications are one way that biomineral-associated cells control the
function and fate of proteins. Of the ten different types of post-translational modifications, one …

We wish to alert the reader to errors that were inadvertantly published in our recent article.
First, in the Abstract, we incorrectly state that our CD experiments included Ca (II) ion …