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Record W4416134010 · doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.138

The cement of the tube-dwelling polychaete <i>Sabellaria alveolata</i> : a complex composite adhesive material

2025· article· en· W4416134010 on OpenAlex
Emilie Duthoo, Aurélie Lambert, Pierre Becker, Carla Pugliese, Jean‐Marc Baele, Arnaud Delfairière, Matthew J. Harrington, Patrick Flammang

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Bibliographic record

VenueBeilstein Journal of Nanotechnology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicPolymer Surface Interaction Studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaFonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’AgricultureFonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
KeywordsCementAdhesiveComposite numberUltrastructurePhosphoserineSerine

Abstract

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Adhesives produced by marine organisms offer remarkable performance and serve as a major source of inspiration for developing biomimetic adhesives. However, a thorough understanding of their composition and operating mechanism is essential for advancing such applications. Sabellariid tubeworms are model organisms in bioadhesion research, and their adhesive system has been characterized in several studies. However, some aspects of cement formation are still poorly understood and several differences have been pointed out between the two main model species. This study aims to investigate the adhesive system of Sabellaria alveolata by identifying new potential adhesive proteins, as well as describing the ultrastructure and elemental composition of the cement cells and their secretion. Different adhesive proteins are packaged in one or the other of two types of cement cells, namely, those containing homogeneous granules and those containing heterogeneous granules with lamellar inclusions. Phosphoserine has been identified as one of the main modified amino acids in tubeworm cement and, using in situ hybridization, we propose that FAM20C kinases would be the enzymes responsible for the phosphorylation of serine residues in adhesive proteins. Comparison between the ultrastructure of the granules and that of the cement suggests that the inclusions of the heterogeneous granules would inflate through a still unexplained process to form hollow spheroids dispersed in the cement matrix, leading to the formation of a complex composite material.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.466

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it