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Elsevier, Journal of Crystal Growth, 9(311), p. 2664-2672

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2009.02.015

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Lactic Acid Bacterial Extract as a Biogenic Mineral Growth Modifier

Journal article published in 2009 by Ballav Moni Borah, Atul K. Singh ORCID, Aiyagari Ramesh, Gopal Das ORCID
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Abstract

The formation of minerals and mechanisms by which bacteria could control their formation in natural habitats is now of current interest for material scientists to have an insight of the mechanism of in vivo mineralization, as well as to seek industrial and technological applications. Crystalline uniform structures of calcium and barium minerals formed micron-sized building blocks when synthesized in the presence of an organic matrix consisting of secreted protein extracts from three different actic acid bacteria (LAB) viz.: Lactobacillus plantarum MTCC1325, Lactobacillus acidophilus NRRL B4495 and Pediococcus acidilactici CFR K7. LAB sare not known to form organic matrix in biological materialization processes. The influence of these bacterial extracts on the crystallization behavior was investigated in details to test the basic coordination behavior of the acidic protein. In this report,varied architecture of the mineral crystals obtained in presence of high molecular weight protein extracts of three different LAB strains has been discussed.The role of native form of high molecular weight bacterial protein extracts in the generation of nucleation centers for crystal growth was clearly established.A model for the formation of organic matrix–cation complex and the subsequent events leading to crystal growth is proposed.