{"id":222,"date":"2010-10-09T00:05:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T04:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2010-10-09T00:05:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T04:05:02","slug":"notes-on-crystal-binding-proteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Notes on crystal binding proteins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had trouble finding info.  A google search on &#8220;crystal binding proteins&#8221; sorta worked.<\/p>\n<p>IgA binds to cholesterol crystals:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11819760\">Cholesterol crystal binding of biliary immunoglobulin A: visualization by fluorescence light microscopy.  Lammert et al. World J Gastroenterol. 2001 Apr;7(2):198-202.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There no doubt are proteins that bind to calcium carbonate shells material, but I couldn&#8217;t find info on them.  I think shell is formed like bone, by cells increasing the local concentration of Ca++ so it crystallizes out of solution rather than by direct enzymatic action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had trouble finding info. A google search on &#8220;crystal binding proteins&#8221; sorta worked. IgA binds to cholesterol crystals: Cholesterol crystal binding of biliary immunoglobulin A: visualization by fluorescence light microscopy. Lammert et al. World J Gastroenterol. 2001 Apr;7(2):198-202. There no doubt are proteins that bind to calcium carbonate shells material, but I couldn&#8217;t find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}