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Research Progress on Phosvitin in the Regulation of Biomineralization

JIE Yilin, CHEN Chan, LIU Qingli, MA Meihu, HUANG Xi*   

  1. National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Egg Processing Technology, College of Food Science and Technology,
    Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Online:2016-05-15 Published:2016-05-18

Abstract:

Recent studies have found that phosphoprotein plays a very important role in biomineralization, and phosvitins possess
the highest phosphorylation level among all known proteins in eggs. Phosvitin was speculated to possess regulatory effects on
biological mineralization according to some previous studies, but the mechanism and active sites for regulation of mineralization
are still unclear. This paper gives a brief overview of where, how and why biomineralization occurs and the way biomineralization
is regulated. Recent hypotheses regarding the regulation of biomineralization by phosvitin are also discussed.

Key words: phosvitin, biomineralization, regulation mechanism, egg

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