A vacuole-like compartment concentrates a disordered calcium phase in a key coccolithophorid alga

Autor: Sanja Sviben, Assaf Gal, Matthew A. Hood, Luca Bertinetti, Yael Politi, Mathieu Bennet, Praveen Krishnamoorthy, Andreas Schertel, Richard Wirth, Andrea Sorrentino, Eva Pereiro, Damien Faivre, André Scheffel
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11228
Popis: Coccolithophores are unicellular marine algae that produce calcitic particles inside their cells. Here the authors study cells of the dominant coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyiand identify an intracellular compartment that is filled with high concentrations of a disordered form of calcium.
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