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Silactins and Structural Diversity of Biosilica in Sponges

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Sponges (phylum Porifera) were among the first metazoans on Earth, and represent a unique global source of highly structured and diverse biosilica that has been formed and tested over more than 800 million years of evolution. Poriferans are recognized as a unique archive of siliceous multiscaled skeletal constructs with superficial micro-ornamentation patterned by biopolymers. In the present study, spicules and skeletal frameworks of selected representatives of sponges in such classes as Demospongiae, Homoscleromorpha, and Hexactinellida were desilicified using 10% HF with the aim of isolating axial filaments, which resemble the shape and size of the original structures. These filaments were unambiguously identified in all specimens under study as F-actin, using the highly specific indicators iFluor™ 594-Phalloidin, iFluor™ 488-Phalloidin, and iFluor™ 350-Phalloidin. The identification of this kind of F-actins, termed for the first time as silactins, as specific pattern drivers in skeletal constructs of sponges opens the way to the fundamental understanding of their skeletogenesis. Examples illustrating the biomimetic potential of sophisticated poriferan biosilica patterned by silactins are presented and discussed.
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hal-04627469 , version 1 (27-06-2024)

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Hermann Ehrlich, Alon Voronkina, Konstant Tabachniсk, Anita Kubiak, Alexander Ereskovsky, et al.. Silactins and Structural Diversity of Biosilica in Sponges. Biomimetics, 2024, 9 (7), pp.393. ⟨10.3390/biomimetics9070393⟩. ⟨hal-04627469⟩
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