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Pure silica sand (Fisher) was dried by heating overnight at 110°C and then stored in desiccators containing calcium chloride.
The basic structure of all diatoms is similar: a single cell, often with a large vacuole, contained within a silica shell or frustule made of two overlapping halves or valves joined by girdle bands, which are also made of silica.
In an ideal world, the next step would be to see what effect genetically altering the expression of the proteins identified by Sussman and Hildebrand has on the silica shell of
Peroxynitrite was synthesized as previously described [ 14 ] . Briefly, solutions of (a) 0.7 M NaNO 2 , 0.7 M H 2 O 2 and (b) 0.6 M HCl, were pumped using a syringe infusion pump (Harvard Apparatus, South Natick, MA) at 25 ml/min, into a Y-junction and mixed in a 2 mm-diameter by 0.5 cm silica tube.
At present, all we know is that silicon transporters and a group of long-chain, polyamine-containing proteins called silaffins, which act as nucleation points for silica deposition, are involved.