ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025
Keratinization-like differentiation process forms chitinous dermal sclerites in the hot-vent snail
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- Extreme Biomimetics: Achievements and Fundamental Challenges for the Future.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Keratinization-like differentiation process forms chitinous dermal sclerites in the hot-vent snailProceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
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Animals produce diverse hard structures for critical functions such as protection, feeding and detoxification. Most animals use the polysaccharide chitin as a framework for this, while vertebrates have switched to using fibrous proteins like collagen and keratin. Vertebrates make structures like skin and horns through a cellular differentiation process called keratinization where cells accumulating keratin die and compact into hard layers-drastically different from chitinous structures, which are secreted directly by living cells. Here, we report remarkable chitinous dermal sclerites that are not secreted but instead produced by a keratinization-like process, in the deep-sea hot-vent snail
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