Splice variants of perlucin from Haliotis laevigata modulate the crystallisation of CaCO3.

ABSTRACT: Perlucin is one of the proteins of the organic matrix of nacre (mother of pearl) playing an important role in biomineralisation. This nacreous layer can be predominately found in the mollusc lineages and is most intensively studied as a compound of the shell of the marine Australian abalone Haliotis laevigata. A more detailed analysis of Perlucin will elucidate some of the still unknown processes in the complex interplay of the organic/inorganic compounds involved in the formation of nacre as a very interesting composite material not only from a life science-based point of view. Within this study we discovered three unknown Perlucin splice variants of the Australian abalone H. laevigata. The amplified cDNAs vary from 562 to 815 base pairs and the resulting translation products differ predo

SUBMITTER: Dodenhof T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4019660 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature