Publications – Glycomin

Macías-Sánchez*, Huang, Willinger, Rodríguez-Navarro, Checa. Organic macromolecules transport a significant proportion of the calcium precursor for nacre formation.

Acta Biomaterialia 191, 140-148 (2025). DOI 10.1016/j.actbio.2024.11.025

Macías-Sánchez, Meruvia-Rojas, Cartwright, Checa, Sainz-Díaz*. Modelling components of nacre structure in silico: Interactions of a nacre peptide with chitin and an aragonite surface.

Journal of Structural Biology 217, 108165 (2025). DOI 10.1016/j.jsb.2024.108165

Rutten, Macías-Sánchez*, Sommerdijk*. On the Role of Glycosylation of Type I Collagen in Bone.

Journal of Structural Biology 206, 108145 (2024) DOI 10.1016/j.jsb.2024.108145

Rutten, Joosten, Schaart, de Beer, Roverts, Gräber, Jahnen-Dechent, Akiva, Macías-Sánchez*, Sommerdijk*. A Cryo-to-Liquid Phase Correlative Light Electron Microscopy Workflow for the Visualization of Biological Processes in Graphene Liquid Cells.

Advanced Functional Materials, 2416938 (2024). DOI 10.1002/adfm.202416938

Macías-Sánchez*, Tarakina, Ivanov, Blouin, Berlanovich, Fratzl*. Spherulitic Crystal Growth Drives Mineral Deposition Patterns in Collagen-based Materials.

Advanced Functional Materials, 32, 2200504 (2022). DOI 10.1002/adfm.202200504

Van der Meijden, Daviran, Rutten, Walboomers, Macías-Sánchez, Sommerdijk*, Akiva*. A 3D cell-free bone model shows collagen mineralization is a physicochemical process driven and controlled by the matrix.

Advanced Functional Materials 33, 2212339 (2023). DOI 10.1002/adfm.202212339

Zou, Tang, Macías-Sánchez, Sviben, Bertinetti, Landis, Fratzl*. Three-dimensional structural interrelations between cells, extracellular matrix and mineral in vertebrate mineralization.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117, 14102-14109 (2020). DOI 10.1073/pnas.1917932117

Jehle, Macías-Sánchez, Sviben, Fratzl, Bertinetti, Harrington. Hierarchically-structured metalloprotein composite coatings biofabricated from co-existing condensed liquid phases.

Nature Communications 11, 862 (2020). DOI 10.1038/s41467-020-14709-y

Macías-Sánchez, Willinger, Pina, Checa*. Transformation of ACC into aragonite and the origin of the nanogranular structure of nacre.

Scientific Reports 7, 12728 (2017). 10.1038/s41598-017-12673-0

Macías-Sánchez, Checa*, Willinger. The transport system of nacre components through the surface membrane of Gastropods.

Key Engineering Materials 672, 103-112 (2015). DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.672.103