AXIAL FILAMENT OF SILICIOUS SPONGE SPICULES, ITS ORGANIC COMPONENTS AND SYNTHESIS.

1. A substantial portion of the axial filament of the spicules of silicious sponges is protein. 2. The axial filament protein lacks the hydroxylated amino acids that are characteristically abundant in collagen. 3. It is feasible to follow the course of silicious deposition in spicules using C14 or H3 in protein precursors.

• Publication year

  1972

• Venue

  The Biological Bulletin

• Publication date

  1972-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Materials Science, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.2307/1540191PMID 28368703
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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