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  • Title: Layered growth of crayfish gastrolith: about the stability of amorphous calcium carbonate and role of additives.
    Author: Habraken WJ, Masic A, Bertinetti L, Al-Sawalmih A, Glazer L, Bentov S, Fratzl P, Sagi A, Aichmayer B, Berman A.
    Journal: J Struct Biol; 2015 Jan; 189(1):28-36. PubMed ID: 25433275.
    Abstract:
    Previous studies on pre-molt gastroliths have shown a typical onion-like morphology of layers of amorphous mineral (mostly calcium carbonate) and chitin, resulting from the continuous deposition and densification of amorphous mineral spheres on a chitin-matrix during time. To investigate the consequences of this layered growth on the local structure and composition of the gastrolith, we performed spatially-resolved Raman, X-ray and SEM-EDS analysis on complete pre-molt gastrolith cross-sections. Results show that especially the abundance of inorganic phosphate, phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)/citrate and proteins is not uniform throughout the organ but changes from layer to layer. Based on these results we can conclude that ACC stabilization in the gastrolith takes place by more than one compound and not by only one of these additives.
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