Amorphous calcium carbonate precipitation by cellular biomineralization in mantle cell cultures of Pinctada fucata.

The growth of molluscan shell crystals is generally thought to be initiated from the extrapallial fluid by matrix proteins, however, the cellular mechanisms of shell formation pathway remain unknown. Here, we first report amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) precipitation by cellular biomineralization...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Liang Xiang, Wei Kong, Jing-Tan Su, Jian Liang, Gui-You Zhang, Li-Ping Xie, Rong-Qing Zhang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4236139?pdf=render