Carbonic anhydrases in anthozoan corals-A review
- Others:
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef studies ; James Cook University (JCU)
- Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM)
- Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis (UNSA)
- Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM) ; Centre Scientifique de Monaco
- Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) ; Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV) ; Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- NEUROFARBA Department [Firenze, Italy] ; Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI)
Description
Coral reefs are among the most biologically diverse and economically important ecosystems on the planet. The deposition of massive calcium carbonate skeletons (biomineralization or calcification) by scleractinian corals forms the coral reef framework/architecture that serves as habitat for a large diversity of organisms. This process would not be possible without the intimate symbiosis between corals and photosynthetic dinoflagellates, commonly called zooxanthellae. Carbonic anhydrases play major roles in those two essential processes of coral's physiology: they are involved in the carbon supply for calcium carbonate precipitation as well as in carbon-concentrating mechanisms for symbiont photosynthesis. Here, we review the current understanding of diversity and function of carbonic anhydrases in corals and discuss the perspective of theses enzymes as a key to understanding impacts of environmental changes on coral reefs. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Additional details
- URL
- https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03502638
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-03502638v1
- Origin repository
- UNICA