Selected Publications

Puverel S., Tambutté E., Pereira-Mouriès L., Zoccola D., Allemand D., Tambutté S. Soluble organic matrix of two Scleractinian coral species: partial and comparative analysis. Submitted.

Milet C., Berland S., Lamghari M., Mouriès L. , Jolly C., Borzeix S. et al. (2004) Conservation of signal molecules involved in biomineralization control in calcifying matrices of bone and shell. C. R. Palevol, 3 : 493-501.

Lopez E., Milet C., Lamghari M, Pereira-Mouriès L., Borzeix S., Berland S. (2004) The Dualism of Nacre. In Key Engineering Materials (Trans Tech Publications), Switzerland, vols. 254-256, pp 733-736.

Pesando D., Robert S., Huitorel P., Gutknecht E., Pereira L., Girard J-P., Ciapa B. (2004) Effects of methoxychlor, dieldrin and lindane on sea urchin fertilization and early development. Aquatic Toxicology 66, 225–239.

Rousseau M., Pereira-Mouriès L., Almeida M-J., Milet C. and Lopez E. (2003) The water-soluble matrix fraction from the nacre of Pinctada maxima produces earlier mineralization of MC3T3-E1 mouse pre-osteoblasts. Comp. Biochem. Physiol B, 135 : 1-7.

Pereira-Mouriès L., Almeida M.J., Milet C., Berland S. & Lopez E. (2002) Bioactivity of nacre water-soluble organic matrix from the bivalve mollusk Pinctada maxima in three mammalian cell types: fibroblasts, bone marrow stromal cells and osteoblasts. Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 132, 215-217.

Pereira-Mouriès L., Almeida M.J., Ribeiro C., Peduzzi J., Barthélemy M., Milet C., Lopez E. (2002) Soluble silk-like organic matrix in the nacreous layer of the bivalve Pinctada maxima. A new insight in the biomineralization field. Eur J Biochem. 269, 4994-5003.

Almeida M.J., Pereira L., Milet C., Haigle J., Barbosa M. & Lopez E. (2001) Comparative effects of nacre water-soluble matrix and dexamethasone on the alkaline phosphatase activity of MRC-5 fibroblasts. J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 57, 306-312.

Pereira-Mouriès L., Milet C., Almeida M.J., Rousseau M., Borzeix S. & Lopez E. (2001) Biological Effect of the water-soluble matrix extract of the nacre shell layer of Pinctada maxima on vertebrate cell proliferation and differentiation. In Proceedings of the 3 rd International Satellite Symposium on the Comparative Endocrinology of Calcium Regulation (Gay, C.V., Dacke, C.G., Dancks, J.A. & Cox, P.A., eds). Homepage: http://www.sci.port.ac.uk/ ˜cecr.

Pereira-Mouriès L., Almeida M.J., Marin F., Gay M., Milet C. & Lopez E. (2001) Soluble proteins of the nacre from the giant oyster Pinctada maxima with highly hydrophobic amino acids. In Biomineralization: formation, diversity, evolution and application . Proceedings of the 8 th International Symposium on Biomineralization ( Kobayashi I. and Ozawa H. eds), Tokai University Press, Tokyo, pp 145-148.

Marin F., Pereira L. & Westbroek P. (2001) Large-scale fractionation of molluscan shell matrix. Protein Expr. Purif., 23, 175-179.

Almeida M.J., Milet C., Peduzzi J., Pereira L., Haigle J., Barthélemy M. & Lopez E. (2000) The effect of water-soluble matrix fraction extracted from the nacre of Pinctadamaxima on the alkaline phosphatase activity of cultured fibroblasts. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.), 288, 327-334.