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Calcifying Matrices: Non-skeletal Structures

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Biological Calcification

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13.6 Concluding Remarks

Calcified non-skeletal matrices and unicellular organisms provide important, reliable models of biological calcification. The following features deserve special consideration:

  • The calcified tissues, cells and structures considered in this chapter are analogous with skeletal tissues as far as the presence of organic material in calcified areas is concerned.

  • Polysaccharides and proteins are the components most often described in this material; proteolipids and calcium-acidic phospholipid-phosphate complexes do, however, characterize the calcification of oral bacteria.

  • Many of these substances are acidic or strongly acidic, and may be phosphorylated.

  • Several specific proteins have been isolated and characterized; their descriptive, at least partly subjective names point to the uncertainty of their nature and function.

  • Intracellular or extracellular vesicles or compartments have been described as sites of initial calcification.

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