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Schmidt CA, Tambutté E, Venn AA, Zou Z, Castillo Alvarez C, Devriendt LS, Bechtel HA, Stifler CA, Anglemyer S, Breit CP, Foust CL, Hopanchuk A, Klaus CN, Kohler IJ, LeCloux IM, Mezera J, Patton MR, Purisch A, Quach V, Sengkhammee JS, Sristy T, Vattem S, Walch EJ, Albéric M, Politi Y, Fratzl P, Tambutté S, Gilbert PUPA. Myriad Mapping of nanoscale minerals reveals calcium carbonate hemihydrate in forming nacre and coral biominerals. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1812. [PMID: 38418834 PMCID: PMC10901822 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46117-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
Abstract
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is abundant on Earth, is a major component of marine biominerals and thus of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and it plays a major role in the global carbon cycle by storing atmospheric CO2 into solid biominerals. Six crystalline polymorphs of CaCO3 are known-3 anhydrous: calcite, aragonite, vaterite, and 3 hydrated: ikaite (CaCO3·6H2O), monohydrocalcite (CaCO3·1H2O, MHC), and calcium carbonate hemihydrate (CaCO3·½H2O, CCHH). CCHH was recently discovered and characterized, but exclusively as a synthetic material, not as a naturally occurring mineral. Here, analyzing 200 million spectra with Myriad Mapping (MM) of nanoscale mineral phases, we find CCHH and MHC, along with amorphous precursors, on freshly deposited coral skeleton and nacre surfaces, but not on sea urchin spines. Thus, biomineralization pathways are more complex and diverse than previously understood, opening new questions on isotopes and climate. Crystalline precursors are more accessible than amorphous ones to other spectroscopies and diffraction, in natural and bio-inspired materials.
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Affiliation(s)
- Connor A Schmidt
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Marine Biology, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, 98000, Monaco, Principality of Monaco
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- Department of Marine Biology, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, 98000, Monaco, Principality of Monaco
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire de chimie de la matière condensée, 75005, Paris, France
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- B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307, Dresden, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Marine Biology, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, 98000, Monaco, Principality of Monaco
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
- Departments of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, and Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
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Davies-Jones J, Davies PR, Graf A, Hewes D, Hill KE, Pascoe M. Photoinduced force microscopy as a novel method for the study of microbial nanostructures. NANOSCALE 2023; 16:223-236. [PMID: 38053416 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr03499b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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A detailed comparison of the capabilities of electron microscopy and nano-infrared (IR) microscopy for imaging microbial nanostructures has been carried out for the first time. The surface sensitivity, chemical specificity, and non-destructive nature of spectroscopic mapping is shown to offer significant advantages over transmission electron microscopy (TEM) for the study of biological samples. As well as yielding important topographical information, the distribution of amides, lipids, and carbohydrates across cross-sections of bacterial (Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus) and fungal (Candida albicans) cells was demonstrated using PiFM. The unique information derived from this new mode of spectroscopic mapping of the surface chemistry and biology of microbial cell walls and membranes, may provide new insights into fungal/bacterial cell function as well as having potential use in determining mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, especially those targeting the cell wall.
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- Josh Davies-Jones
- Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3A, UK.
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- Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3A, UK.
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- Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3A, UK.
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- Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3A, UK.
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- Advanced Therapies Group, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XY, UK.
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- Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3A, UK.
- School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3BN, UK.
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