Shedding light on biosilica morphogenesis by comparative analysis of the silica-associated proteomes from three diatom species
Alastair W. Skeffington, Marc Gentzel, André Ohara, Alexander Milentyev, Christoph Heintze, Lorenz Böttcher, Stefan Görlich, Andrej Shevchenko, Nicole Poulsen, Nils Kröger
The paper identifies silica-associated proteins from three diatom species and finds that they lack commonality and show low sequence similarity, suggesting unique morphogenetic mechanisms.
bioRxiv · Sep 18, 2021 · PreprintMolecular Biology