The Holothuria leucospilota genome elucidates sacrificial organ expulsion and bioadhesive trap enriched with amyloid-patterned proteins

Some tropical sea cucumbers of the family Holothuriidae can efficiently repel or even fatally ensnare predators by sacrificially ejecting a bioadhesive matrix termed the Cuvierian organ (CO), so named by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier who first described it in 1831. Still, the precise mechanism...

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Autores principales: Chen, Ting, Ren, Chunhua, Wong, Nai-Kei, Yan, Aifen, Sun, Caiyun, Fan, Dingding, Luo, Peng, Jiang, Xiao, Zhang, Lvping, Ruan, Yao, Li, Jiaxi, Wu, Xiaofen, Huo, Da, Huang, Jiasheng, Li, Xiaomin, Wu, Feifei, E, Zixuan, Cheng, Chuhang, Zhang, Xin, Wang, Yanhong, Hu, Chaoqun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2023
Materias:
Biological Sciences
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10120082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37036994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213512120

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