Mineralization is an essential requirement for normal skeletal development, but under certain pathological conditions organs like articular cartilage and cardiovascular tissue are prone to unwanted mineralization. Recent findings suggest that the mechanisms regulating skeletal mineralization may be similar to those regulating pathological mineralization. In general, three forms of cell-mediated...

Archaeoglobus fulgidus ferritin (AfFtn) is the only tetracosameric ferritin known to form a tetrahedral cage, a structure that remains unique in structural biology. As a result of the tetrahedral (2-3) symmetry, four openings (∼45 Å in diameter) are formed in the cage. This open tetrahedral assembly contradicts the paradigm of a typical ferritin cage: a closed assembly having octahedral (4-3-2)...

BACKGROUND External nutrient discharges have caused eutrophication in many estuaries and coastal seas such as the Baltic Sea. The sedimented nutrients can affect bacterial communities which, in turn, are widely believed to contribute to release of nutrients such as phosphorus from the sediment. METHODS We investigated relationships between bacterial communities and chemical forms of phosphoru...

A broad sampling program was carried out in the spring of 2019 on Brittany coast to assess how surface sediment characteristics drive benthic effluxes ammonium (NH 4 + ) and phosphate (PO from intertidal mudflats. total 200 samples were characterized by their porosity, grain-size, elemental composition pigment contents, as well fluxes NH PO determined core incubations. The results showed that (...

The role of biogenicity in the mineral world is larger than many might assume. Biological processes and physical chemical interact both at Earth’s surface far underground, leading to formation banded iron manganese deposits, among others. Microbial mats can form giant sedimentary ore which include enrichment further elements. This article reviews ways microbially-mediated contribute mineralizat...

this study deals with employing foundry sand (fs) as new low cost iron source in heterogeneousphoto-fenton process for the degradation of herbicide isoproturon (ipu) in aqueous solution. thecharacterization of the fs by eds confirmed presence of iron (23%) required for photo-fenton andsimultaneously confirmed absence of any heavy metals which may be susceptible to leaching. the photo-fenton eff...

Extracellular matrix (ECM) mineralization is a physiological process in bone and a pathological one in soft tissues. The mechanisms determining the spatial restriction of ECM mineralization to bone physiologically are poorly understood. Here we show that a normal extracellular phosphate concentration is required for bone mineralization, while lowering this concentration prevents mineralization ...