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| Gueguen, Yannick; Montagnani, Caroline; Joubert, Caroline; Marie, Benjamin; Belliard, Corinne; Tayale, Alexandre; Fievet, Julie; Levy, Peva; Piquemal, David; Marin, Frederic; Le Moullac, Gilles; Ky, Chin-long; Garen, Pierre; Lo, Cedrick; Saulnier, Denis. |
| Tahiti’s pearl farming industry plays a major socio-economic role in French Polynesia. In an increasingly competitive market where the production of high quality pearls becomes essential, research can help secure and ensure sustainable production. In that context, Ifremer, in close collaboration with the “direction des resources marines” (French Polynesian government agency) has developed research projects on the “sustainable development of pearl farming”. This program is organized along 3 axes: (1) understanding the animal physiology and initiating a genetically selective breeding program of donor oysters; (2) understanding pearl oyster larvae dispersal and recruitment; (3) understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying biomineralization processes... |
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Palavras-chave: Pearl oyster; Biomineralization; Pinctada margaritifera. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00167/27840/26049.pdf |
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| Marie, Benjamin; Joubert, Caroline; Belliard, Corinne; Tayale, Alexandre; Zanella-cleon, Isabelle; Marin, Frederic; Gueguen, Yannick; Montagnani, Caroline. |
| Nacre of the Pinctada pearl oyster shells is composed of 98% CaCO3 and 2% organic matrix. The relationship between the organic matrix and the mechanism of nacre formation currently constitutes the main focus regarding the biomineralization process. In this study, we isolated a new nacre matrix protein in P. margaritifera and P. maxima, we called Pmarg- and Pmax-MRNP34 (methionine-rich nacre protein). MRNP34 is a secreted hydrophobic protein, which is remarkably rich in methionine, and which is specifically localised in mineralizing the epithelium cells of the mantle and in the nacre matrix. The structure of this protein is drastically different from those of the other nacre proteins already described. This unusual methionine-rich protein is a new member in... |
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Palavras-chave: Matrix protein; Methionine-rich; Biomineralization; Mollusc; Nacre; Calcifying mantle. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00077/18870/16645.pdf |
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| Marie, Benjamin; Joubert, Caroline; Tayale, Alexandre; Zanella-cleon, Isabelle; Belliard, Corinne; Piquemal, David; Cochennec-laureau, Nathalie; Marin, Frederic; Gueguen, Yannick; Montagnani, Caroline. |
| Mollusca evolutionary success can be attributed partly to their efficiency to sustain and protect their soft body with an external biomineralized structure, the shell. Current knowledge of the protein set responsible for the formation of the shell microstructural polymorphism and unique properties remains largely patchy. In Pinctada margaritifera and Pinctada maxima, we identified 80 shell matrix proteins, among which 66 are entirely unique. This is the only description of the whole "biomineralization toolkit" of the matrices that, at least in part, is thought to regulate the formation of the prismatic and nacreous shell layers in the pearl oysters. We unambiguously demonstrate that prisms and nacre are assembled from very different protein repertoires.... |
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Palavras-chave: Mantle; Mollusk shell matrix proteins; Proteome; Transcriptome; Evolution. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00118/22959/20922.pdf |
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| Joubert, Caroline; Linard, Clementine; Le Moullac, Gilles; Soyez, Claude; Saulnier, Denis; Teaniniuraitemoana, Vaihiti; Ky, Chin-long; Gueguen, Yannick. |
| In this study, we analyzed the combined effect of microalgal concentration and temperature on the shell growth of the bivalve Pinctada margaritifera and the molecular mechanisms underlying this biomineralization process. Shell growth was measured after two months of rearing in experimental conditions, using calcein staining of the calcified structures. Molecular mechanisms were studied though the expression of 11 genes encoding proteins implicated in the biomineralization process, which was assessed in the mantle. We showed that shell growth is influenced by both microalgal concentration and temperature, and that these environmental factors also regulate the expression of most of the genes studied. Gene expression measurement of shell matrix protein... |
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| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00210/32095/30535.pdf |
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| Joubert, Caroline; Piquemal, David; Marie, Benjamin; Manchon, Laurent; Pierrat, Fabien; Zanella-cleon, Isabelle; Cochennec-laureau, Nathalie; Gueguen, Yannick; Montagnani, Caroline. |
| Background: The shell of the pearl-producing bivalve Pinctada margaritifera is composed of an organic cell-free matrix that plays a key role in the dynamic process of biologically-controlled biomineralization. In order to increase genomic resources and identify shell matrix proteins implicated in biomineralization in P. margaritifera, high-throughput Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) pyrosequencing was undertaken on the calcifying mantle, combined with a proteomic analysis of the shell. Results: We report the functional analysis of 276 738 sequences, leading to the constitution of an unprecedented catalog of 82 P. margaritifera biomineralization-related mantle protein sequences. Components of the current "chitin-silk fibroin gel-acidic macromolecule" model of... |
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| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00020/13154/10202.pdf |
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