Direct evidence of the molecular basis for biological silicon transport

Four hundred million years of silica biomineralization in land plants

(2015) Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: Factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes

(2015) A. Z. Worden et al.   SCIENCE

A feasibility study of the biologically inspired green manufacturing of precipitated silica

(2014) Craig Drummond et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Evidence for a Regulatory Role of Diatom Silicon Transporters in Cellular Silicon Responses

(2014) Roshan P. Shrestha et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Quality Control in Eukaryotic Membrane Protein Overproduction

(2014) Jennifer A. Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Bioinspired Insights into Silicic Acid Stabilization Mechanisms: The Dominant Role of Polyethylene Glycol-Induced Hydrogen Bonding

(2014) Melina Preari et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Tyrosine-Rich Cell Surface Protein in the Diatom Amphora coffeaeformis Identified through Transcriptome Analysis and Genetic Transformation

(2014) Matthias T. Buhmann et al.   PLoS One

Common Folds and Transport Mechanisms of Secondary Active Transporters

(2013) Yigong Shi   Annual Review of Biophysics

Structural basis for alternating access of a eukaryotic calcium/proton exchanger

(2013) Andrew B. Waight et al.   NATURE

Structural and mechanistic insights into prokaryotic energy-coupling factor transporters

(2013) Dirk J. Slotboom   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization and Localization of Insoluble Organic Matrices Associated with Diatom Cell Walls: Insight into Their Roles during Cell Wall Formation

(2013) Benoit Tesson et al.   PLoS One

Thick-shelled, grazer-protected diatoms decouple ocean carbon and silicon cycles in the iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current

(2013) P. Assmy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A family of diatom-like silicon transporters in the siliceous loricate choanoflagellates

(2013) A. O. Marron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biomineralization as an Inspiration for Materials Chemistry

(2012) Fabio Nudelman et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The World Ocean Silica Cycle

(2012) Paul J. Tréguer et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Expression, Purification, and Reconstitution of a Diatom Silicon Transporter

(2012) Paul Curnow et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Whole transcriptome analysis of the silicon response of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana

(2012) Roshan Shrestha et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Chemistry of Aqueous Silica Nanoparticle Surfaces and the Mechanism of Selective Peptide Adsorption

(2012) Siddharth V. Patwardhan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Investigation of the sodium-binding sites in the sodium-coupled betaine transporter BetP

(2012) K. Khafizov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Nanopatterned protein microrings from a diatom that direct silica morphogenesis

(2011) A. Scheffel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Peptide-Based Methods for the Preparation of Nanostructured Inorganic Materials

(2010) Chun-Long Chen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Extensive and Intimate Association of the Cytoskeleton with Forming Silica in Diatoms: Control over Patterning on the Meso- and Micro-Scale

(2010) Benoit Tesson et al.   PLoS One

Oceanographic and Biogeochemical Insights from Diatom Genomes

(2009) Chris Bowler et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

When to say when: can excessive drinking explain silicon uptake in diatoms?

(2009) Kimberlee Thamatrakoln et al.   BIOESSAYS

Unlocking the molecular secrets of sodium-coupled transporters

(2009) Harini Krishnamurthy et al.   NATURE

The life of diatoms in the world's oceans

(2009) E. Virginia Armbrust   NATURE

Genome-Wide Transcriptome Analyses of Silicon Metabolism in Phaeodactylum tricornutum Reveal the Multilevel Regulation of Silicic Acid Transporters

(2009) Guillaume Sapriel et al.   PLoS One

Detergent binding explains anomalous SDS-PAGE migration of membrane proteins

(2009) Arianna Rath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thermal and chemical methods for producing zinc silicate (willemite): A review

(2009) Masafumi Takesue et al.   PROGRESS IN CRYSTAL GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS

Silacidins: Highly Acidic Phosphopeptides from Diatom Shells Assist in Silica Precipitation In Vitro

(2008) Stephan Wenzl et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Diatoms—From Cell Wall Biogenesis to Nanotechnology

(2008) Nils Kröger et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Functions and transport of silicon in plants

(2008) J. F. Ma et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Diatoms, Biomineralization Processes, and Genomics

(2008) Mark Hildebrand   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the evolutionary history of diatom genomes

(2008) Chris Bowler et al.   NATURE

Whole-genome expression profiling of the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana identifies genes involved in silicon bioprocesses

(2008) T. Mock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Silicon Uptake in Diatoms Revisited: A Model for Saturable and Nonsaturable Uptake Kinetics and the Role of Silicon Transporters

(2007) K. Thamatrakoln et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY