Extracellular carbonic anhydrase activity promotes a carbon concentration mechanism in metazoan calcifying cells
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2203904119
Abstract: Significance Biological calcifying systems are capable of generating a versatile construction material from metabolic CO2. Here, the transformation of CO2 to HCO3− is of critical importance, with very limited information about the underlying mechanisms. Carbonic… read more here.
Keywords: carbon concentration; concentration mechanism; calcifying cells;