Process of Synthesizing Silica through Directed Evolution of Silicatein Proteins (IMAGE)

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Process of Synthesizing Silica through Directed Evolution of Silicatein Proteins

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This image shows the process of synthesizing silica through directed evolution of silicatein proteins.

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Published with permission from PNAS Plus - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry: Lukmaan A. Bawazer, Michi Izumi, Dmitriy Kolodin, James R. Neilson, Birgit Schwenzer, and Daniel E. Morse PNAS Plus: Evolutionary selection of enzymatically synthesized semiconductors from biomimetic mineralization vesicles PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print June 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1116958109

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