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2019

Identification of proteins in the adhesive trails of the diatom Amphora coffeaeformis

Control of biosilica morphology and mechanical performance by the conserved diatom gene Silicanin-1

Influence of silica architecture on the catalytic activity of immobilized glucose oxidase
2018

Biomineralization as a paradigm of directional solidification: A physical model for molluscan shell ultrastructural morphogenesis

Reconstituting the formation of hierarchically porous silica patterns using diatom biomolecules
2017

Immobilization of Proteins on Diatom Biosilica
Diatom Nanotechnology (D. Losic, ed.), RSC Publishing p. 126-149 (2017)

Silicanin-1 is a conserved diatom membrane protein involved in silica biomineralization
2016

Establishing super-resolution imaging for proteins in diatom biosilica

Structures of the PSCD domains of pleuralin-1, a biosilica-associated protein from the diatom Cylindrotheca fusiformis, and their interactions with other cell wall proteins

Biochemical composition and assembly of biosilica-associated insoluble organic matrices from the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana
2015

Targeted drug delivery using genetically engineered diatom biosilica

Compartmentalisation of Enzymes for Cascade Reactions through Biomimetic Layer-by-Layer Mineralization
2014

A Tyrosine-rich Cell Surface Protein in the Diatom Amphora coffeaeformis identified through Transcriptome Analysis and Genetic Transformation

Complex-shaped microbial biominerals for nanotechnology

Isolation and Biochemical Characterization of Underwater Adhesives from Diatoms
Biofouling 30, 513-523 (2014)
2013

Nitrate and carbonate concentration for high glucose content in microalgae

Pentalysine clusters mediate silica targeting of silaffins in Thalassiosira pseudonana

Kieselalgen für die Nanotechnik

Rapid Flow-through Biocatalysis with High Surface Area, Enzyme -loaded Carbon and Gold- bearing Diatom Frustule Replicas

Morphogenese der Silica-Zellwände von Diatomeen
BIOspektrum 19, 12-15 (2013)
2012

Live Diatom Silica Immobilization of Multimeric and Redox-active Enzymes
2011

Biocatalytic Nanoscale Coatings through Biomimetic Layer-by-Layer Mineralization

Nanopatterned protein microrings from a diatom that direct silica morphogenesis
2010

From Diatom Biomolecules to Bioinspired Syntheses of Silica- and Titania-based Materials.

Characterization of an endoplasmic reticulum-associated silaffin kinase from the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana
2009

Protein-Mediated Layer-by-Layer Syntheses of Freestanding Microscale Titania Structures with Biologically Assembled 3-D Morphologies.

The molecular basis of nacre formation

Protein-Enabled Synthesis of Monodisperse Titania Nanoparticles On and Within Polyelectrolyte Matrices.
2008

Diatoms - from cell wall biogenesis to nanotechnology

The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the evolutionary history of diatom genomes.

Bio-enabled Surface-mediated Growth of Uniform Titania Nanoparticles

Identification of peptides capable of inducing the formation of titania but not silica via a subtractive bacteriophage display approach
2007

Prescribing diatom morphology: toward genetic engineering of biological nanomaterials

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics of Silica Biomineralization in Diatoms
Handbook of Biomineralization - Biological Aspects and Structure Formation (E. Baeuerlein, ed.), Wiley-VCH, p. 43-58 (2007)

Silica immobilization of an enzyme via genetic engineering of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana

Identification and Design of Peptides for the Rapid, High Yield Formation of Nanoparticulate TiO2 from Aqueous Solutions at Room Temperature
2006

Bio-enabled synthesis of Rutile (TiO2) at ambient temperature and neutral pH

Molecular genetic manipulation of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana (Bacillariophyceae)

Rapid, Room-Temperature Formation of Crystalline Calcium Molybdate Phosphor Microparticles via Peptide-Induced Precipitation
2005

Biosilica Nanofabrication in Diatoms: The Structures and Properties of Regulatory Silaffins.
MRS Proceedings, 873, K1.2 doi:10.1557/PROC-873-K1.2 (2005)

A new molecular tool for transgenic diatoms: Control of mRNA and protein biosynthesis by an inducible promoter-terminator cassette
2004

Silica morphogenesis by alternative processing of silaffins in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana

The genome of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana: ecology, evolution, and metabolism

The Molecular Basis of Diatom Biosilica Formation
in Biomineralization (E. Baeuerlein, ed.) 2nd edition, Wiley-VCH, p. 137-158 (2004)

Silica formation in diatoms: the function of long-chain polyamines and silaffins
2003

Biosilica formation in diatoms: Characterization of native silaffin-2 and its role in silica morphogenesis

Solid-state 29Si MAS NMR studies of diatoms: structural characterization of biosilica deposits

Silica deposition by a repetitive proline-rich protein from systemically resistant cucumber plants
2002

Self-assembly of highly phosphorylated silaffins and their function in biosilica morphogenesis
2001

The sweetness of diatom molecular engineering

Silica precipitating peptides from diatoms: The chemical structure of silaffin-1A from Cylindrotheca fusiformis

1H, 13C and 15N sequence-specific resonance assignment of the PSCD4 domain of diatom cell wall protein pleuralin-1

The biogenesis of silicate cell walls of diatoms
BIOspektrum 7, 556-557 (2001).
2000

Species specific polyamines from diatoms control silica morphology

Pleuralins are involved in theca differentiation in the diatom Cylindrotheca fusiformis

The Biochemistry of Silica Formation in Diatoms
in Biomineralization (E. Baeuerlein, ed.) 1st edition, Wiley-VCH, p. 151-170 (2000)
1999

Polycationic peptides from diatom biosilica that direct silica nanosphere formation

Targeting and covalent modification of cell wall and membrane proteins heterologously expressed in the diatom Cylindrotheca fusiformis (Bacillariophyceae)
1998

Diatom cell wall proteins and the cell biology of silica biomineralization
1997

Characterization of a 200 kDa diatom protein that is specifically associated with a silica-based substructure of the cell wall
1996

Frustulins: domain conservation in a protein family associated with diatom cell walls
1994
