Abstract
During mineral growth in rat bone-marrow stromal cell cultures, gallium follows calcium pathways. The dominant phase of the cell culture mineral constitutes the poorly crystalline hydroxyapatite (HAP). This model system mimics bone mineralization in vivo. The structural characterization of the Ga environment was performed by X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the Ga K-edge. These data were compared with Ga-doped synthetic compounds (poorly crystalline hydroxyapatite, amorphous calcium phosphate and brushite) and with strontium-treated bone tissue, obtained from the same culture model. It was found that Sr2+ substitutes for Ca2+ in the HAP crystal lattice. In contrast, the replacement by Ga3+ yielded a much more disordered local environment of the probe atom in all investigated cell culture samples. The coordination of Ga ions in the cell culture minerals was similar to that of Ga3+, substituted for Ca2+, in the Ga-doped synthetic brushite (Ga-DCPD). The Ga atoms in the Ga-DCPD were coordinated by four oxygen atoms (1.90 Å) of the four phosphate groups and two oxygen atoms at 2.02 Å. Interestingly, the local environment of Ga in the cell culture minerals was not dependent on the onset of Ga treatment, the Ga concentration in the medium or the age of the mineral. Thus, it was concluded that Ga ions were incorporated into the precursor phase to the HAP mineral. Substitution for Ca2+ with Ga3+ distorted locally this brushite-like environment, which prevented the transformation of the initially deposited phase into the poorly crystalline HAP.
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Abbreviations
- ACP:
-
amorphous calcium phosphate
- DCPD:
-
dicalcium phosphate dihydrate (brushite)
- HAP:
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hydroxyapatite
- ED-XRF:
-
energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence
- EXAFS:
-
extended X-ray absorption fine structure
- Ga-ACP:
-
gallium-doped amorphous calcium phosphate
- Ga-DCPD:
-
gallium-doped brushite
- Ga-HAP:
-
gallium-doped hydroxyapatite
- XANES:
-
X-ray absorption near edge structure
- XAS:
-
X-ray absorption spectroscopy
- XRD:
-
X-ray diffraction
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M.K. is grateful for the support of the European Community – Improving the Human Research Potential and Social-Economic Knowledge Base Programme, Marie Curie Training Sites, contract number HPMT-CT-20000-00174 and of the European Community – Access to Research Infrastructure Action of the Improving Human Potential Programme to the EMBL Hamburg Outstation, contract number HPRI-CT-1999-00017. The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of Dr. Bernd Hasse during data collection at beamline G3 of HASYLAB/DESY.
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Korbas, M., Rokita, E., Meyer-Klaucke, W. et al. Bone tissue incorporates in vitro gallium with a local structure similar to gallium-doped brushite. J Biol Inorg Chem 9, 67–76 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-003-0497-9
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