Butterfly gyroid nanostructures as a time-frozen glimpse of intracellular membrane development
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Wilts, Bodo; Apeleo Zubiri, Benjamin; Klatt, Michael A; Butz, Benjamin; Fischer, Michael G; Kelly, Stephen T; Spiecker, Erdmann; Steiner, Ullrich; Schroeder-Turk, Gerd
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The formation of the biophotonic gyroid material in butterflywing scales is an exceptional feat of evolutionary engineering of functional nanostructures. It is hypothesized that this nanostructure forms by chitin polymerization inside a convoluted membrane of corresponding shape in the endoplasmic reticulum. However, this dynamic formation process, including whether membrane folding and chitin expression are simultaneous or sequential processes, cannot yet be elucidated by in vivo imaging. We...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2017 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/204311 |
Source: | Science Advances |
DOI: | 10.1126/sciadv.1603119 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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