Silicon biochemistry

The chemistry of silicon oxygen compounds with SiOs and SiC>6 skeletons in aqueous solution is of special interest. It has been speculated that such Si(IV) complexes with ligands derived from organic hydroxy compounds (such as pyrocatechol derivatives, hydroxycarboxylic acids, and carbohydrates) may play a significant role in silicon biochemistry by controlling the transport of silicon. 

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A further major breakthrough in silicon biochemistry came from recent studies with the common marine sponge Tethya aurantia. After dissolution of the silica with buffered hydrofluoric acid, these filaments can be isolated, purified, and resolved into three very similar silicon-free subunits, named silicatein (silica protein) a, p, and y. Analyses of the... 

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