High impact information on Pinctada

• ALP from a pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata (PALP), is presumably involved in nacreous biomineralization processes [1].
• Chemical modification studies on alkaline phosphatase from pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata): a substrate reaction course analysis and involvement of essential arginine and lysine residues at the active site [1].
• Highly oriented aragonite nanocrystal-biopolymer composites in an aragonite brick of the nacreous layer of Pinctada fucata [2].
• 13C CP/MAS NMR and FE/TEM measurements of the aragonite brick of the nacreous layer of Pinctada fucata indicate that it assembles with highly oriented aragonite nanocrystals, which are regulated by biopolymers [2].
• The shells of Pinna and Pinctada are composed of calcite prisms separated by organic walls [3].

Biological context of Pinctada

• Effect of maternal exposure to tributyltin on reproduction of the pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii) [4].
• Distribution of cadmium in the pearl oyster, Pinctada albina albina (Lamarck), following exposure to cadmium in seawater [5].

Anatomical context of Pinctada

• A galactose-specific lectin from the hemolymph of the pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata martensii [6].
• Two isoenzymes (AcPase I and II) of acid phosphatase were separated and purified from viscera of pearl oyster, P. fucata to homogeneity by chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose Fast Flow, Sephadex G-200 superfine and ConA Sepharose 4B, and partial biochemical properties of AcPase I and II were studied [7].

Associations of Pinctada with chemical compounds

• Characterization and quantification of chitosan extracted from nacre of the abalone Haliotis tuberculata and the oyster Pinctada maxima [8].
• Arsenic compounds accumulated in pearl oyster Pinctada fucata [9].
• We examined the effect of tributyltin (TBT) on reproduction of the pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii) [4].
• On the grounds of the present evidence the major water-soluble arsenic compound accumulated in each part was identified as arsenobetaine without exception in both types of pearl oysters (94.3-99.7% in the pearl-free pearl oyster and 87.2-99.7% in the pearl-containing pearl oyster) [9].
• A novel carbonic anhydrase (CA) has been purified from the mantle of the pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata, by ammonium sulfate precipitation and affinity chromatography [10].

Gene context of Pinctada

• In vivo and in vitro studies provide strong evidence of the osteogenic activity of nacre obtained from Pinctada maxima [11].
• A novel putative tyrosinase involved in periostracum formation from the pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata) [12].
• We have cloned the cDNAs that encode two kinds of molluscan shell matrix proteins, namely N66 and N14, in the nacreous layer of Pinctada maxima [13].
• The cDNAs encoding a novel matrix protein family (KRMP) were cloned from the mantle of pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata [14].
• In this report a full-length complementary DNA encoding a QM counterpart in pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata) was isolated [15].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Pinctada

• Molecular cloning and expression of a pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata) homologue of mammalian putative tumor suppressor QM [15].

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