Carsten Eckert
University of Mainz
7 Papers
137 Citations
Carsten Eckert is an academic researcher from University of Mainz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sponge spicule & Suberites domuncula. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 7 publications. Previous affiliations of Carsten Eckert include Museum für Naturkunde.
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Papers
Co-expression and Functional Interaction of Silicatein with Galectin MATRIX-GUIDED FORMATION OF SILICEOUS SPICULES IN THE MARINE DEMOSPONGE SUBERITES DOMUNCULA
Heinz C. Schröder,Alexandra Boreiko,Michael Korzhev,Muhammad Nawaz Tahir,Wolfgang Tremel,Carsten Eckert,Hiroshi Ushijima,Isabel M. Müller,Werner E.G. Müller +8 more
TL;DR: A scheme that outlines the matrix (galectin/silicatein)-guided appositional growth of spicules through centripetal and centrifugal synthesis and deposition of biosilica is proposed and is relevant for potential (nano)-biotechnological applications of silicatein in the formation of surface coatings.
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Bioorganic/inorganic hybrid composition of sponge spicules: matrix of the giant spicules and of the comitalia of the deep sea hexactinellid Monorhaphis.
Werner E.G. Müller,Xiaohong Wang,Klaus Kropf,Hiroshi Ushijima,Werner Geurtsen,Carsten Eckert,Carsten Eckert,Muhammad Nawaz Tahir,Wolfgang Tremel,Alexandra Boreiko,Ute Schloßmacher,Jinhe Li,Heinz C. Schröder +12 more
TL;DR: The complex bioorganic/inorganic hybrid composition and structure of the Monorhaphis spicules might provide the blueprint for the synthesis of bio-inspired material, with unusual mechanical properties (strength, stiffness) without losing the exceptional properties of optical transmission.
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Formation of giant spicules in the deep-sea hexactinellid Monorhaphis chuni (Schulze 1904): electron-microscopic and biochemical studies
Werner E.G. Müller,Carsten Eckert,Klaus Kropf,Xiaohong Wang,Ute Schloßmacher,Christopf Seckert,Stephan E. Wolf,Wolfgang Tremel,Heinz C. Schröder +8 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that, in the Hexactinellida, the growth of the spicules is mediated by silicatein or by a silicatesin-related protein, with the orientation of biosilica deposition being controlled by lectin and collagen.
Analysis of the axial filament in spicules of the demosponge Geodia cydonium: Different silicatein composition in microscleres (asters) and megascleres (oxeas and triaenes)
Werner E.G. Müller,Ute Schloßmacher,Carsten Eckert,Anatoli Krasko,Alexandra Boreiko,Hiroshi Ushijima,Stephan E. Wolf,Wolfgang Tremel,Isabel M. Müller,Heinz C. Schröder +9 more
TL;DR: It is hypothesized, that the different composition of the axial filaments, with respect to silicateins, contributes to the morphology of the different types of spicules in the demosponge Geodia cydonium that possesses megascleres and microscleres.
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Histochemical and Electron Microscopic Analysis of Spiculogenesis in the Demosponge Suberites domuncula
TL;DR: Data indicate that species-specific formation of spicules involves a network of (diffusible) regulatory factor(s) controlling enzymatic silica deposition; this mineralization process proceeds on a galectin/collagen organic matrix.
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