Mollusk shell organic matrix: Fourier transform infrared study of the acidic macromolecules
作者:
Daniele Worms,
Stephen Weiner,
期刊:
Journal of Experimental Zoology
(WILEY Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 237,
issue 1
页码: 11-20
ISSN:0022-104X
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1002/jez.1402370104
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractIon‐binding ligands and the conformations of some of the acidic matrix macromolecules present in the shells of a gastroped, a bivalve, and a cephalopod, are investigated in vitro by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The complex assemblage of matrix constituents present in the EDTA‐soluble fraction is first separated into two quite different classes of macromolecules by a reversed‐phase chromatographic procedure. Infrared spectra indicate that the constituents of one class, which are proteins rich in aspartic acid, adopt the β‐sheet conformation upon binding calcium to the protein carboxylate groups. The second class of matrix constituents contains proteins rich in serine that appear to be associated with relatively large amounts of polysaccharide. They also bind calcium and upon doing so undergo a conformationa
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