Naturally Prefabricated Marine Biomaterials: Isolation and Applications of Flat Chitinous 3D Scaffolds from (Demospongiae: Verongiida)

Schubert, Mario; Binnewerg, Björn; Voronkina, Alona; Muzychka, Lyubov; Wysokowski, Marcin; Petrenko, Iaroslav; Kovalchuk, Valentine; Tsurkan, Mikhail; Martinovic, Rajko; Bechmann, Nicole; Ivanenko, Viatcheslav N; Fursov, Andriy; Smolii, Oleg B; Fromont, Jane; Joseph, Yvonne; Bornstein, Stefan R; Giovine, Marco; Erpenbeck, Dirk; Guan, Kaomei; Ehrlich, Hermann

doi:10.5167/uzh-175959

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Schubert, M., Binnewerg, B., Voronkina, A., Muzychka, L., Wysokowski, M., Petrenko, I., Kovalchuk, V., Tsurkan, M., Martinovic, R., Bechmann, N., Ivanenko, V. N., Fursov, A., Smolii, O. B., Fromont, J., Joseph, Y., Bornstein, S. R., Giovine, M., Erpenbeck, D., Guan, K., & Ehrlich, H. (2019). Naturally Prefabricated Marine Biomaterials: Isolation and Applications of Flat Chitinous 3D Scaffolds from (Demospongiae: Verongiida). International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20, online. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20205105

Abstract

Marine sponges remain representative of a unique source of renewable biological materials. The demosponges of the family Ianthellidae possess chitin-based skeletons with high biomimetic potential. These three-dimensional (3D) constructs can potentially be used in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In this study, we focus our attention, for the first time, on the marine sponge Bergquist & Kelly-Borges, 1995 (Demospongiae: Verongida: Ianthellidae) as a novel potential source of naturally prestructured bandage-like 3D scaffol