Materials synthesis in vivo – intracellular formation of nanostructured silica by microalgae

Project Information

BioSilica

Grant agreement ID: 848339

DOI

10.3030/848339

Project closed

EC signature date 7 October 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
Israel

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Decoupling cell size homeostasis in diatoms from the geometrical constraints of the silica cell wall

Author(s): Diede de Haan, Nahuel‐Hernán Ramos, Yu‐Feng Meng, Ron Rotkopf, Yoseph Addadi, Irit Rosenhek‐Goldian, Assaf Gal
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 243, 2024, Page(s) 258-270, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.19743

Structural evidence for extracellular silica formation by diatoms

Author(s): Boaz Mayzel, Lior Aram, Neta Varsano, Sharon G. Wolf, Assaf Gal
Published in: Nature Communications, 2021, Page(s) 4639, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24944-6

Exocytosis of the silicified cell wall of diatoms involves extensive membrane disintegration

Author(s): Diede de Haan, Lior Aram, Hadas Peled-Zehavi, Yoseph Addadi, Oz Ben-Joseph, Ron Rotkopf, Nadav Elad, Katya Rechav and Assaf Gal
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36112-z

Phase Separation of Oppositely Charged Polymers Regulates Bioinspired Silicification

Author(s): Hang Zhai, Tatyana Bendikov, Assaf Gal
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 52, 2022, Page(s) e202115930, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202115930

Hexagonal Patterns in Diatom Silica Form via a Directional Two‐Step Process

Author(s): Zipora Lansky, Diede de Haan, Yuval Piven, Katya Rechav, Assaf Gal
Published in: Advanced Science, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202402492

Intracellular morphogenesis of diatom silica is guided by local variations in membrane curvature

Author(s): Lior Aram, Diede de Haan, Neta Varsano, James B. Gilchrist, Christoph Heintze, Ron Rotkopf, Katya Rechav, Nadav Elad, Nils Kröger, Assaf Gal
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52211-x

Polymer-Rich Dense Phase Can Concentrate Metastable Silica Precursors and Regulate Their Mineralization

Author(s): Hang Zhai, Yuke Fan, Wenjun Zhang, Neta Varsano and Assaf Gal
Published in: ACS biomaterials science & engineering, 2023, ISSN 2373-9878
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.2c01249

Imaging and quantifying homeostatic levels of intracellular silicon in diatoms

Author(s): Santosh Kumar, Katya Rechav, Ifat Kaplan-Ashiri, Assaf Gal
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 6/42, 2020, Page(s) eaaz7554, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz7554

A pH-Dependent Phase Separation Drives Polyamine-Mediated Silicification from Undersaturated Solutions

Author(s): Protap Biswas, Nitzan Livni, Debojit Paul, Lior Aram, Razi Safadi, Neta Varsano, Nadav Elad, Roman Kamyshinsky, Michal Leskes, Assaf Gal
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 33998-34006, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c08707