Response to Comment on 'Avoidance of Aluminum Toxicity in Freshwater Snails Involves Intracellular Silicon-Aluminum Biointeraction'

摘要

We thank you for the opportunity to respond to Dr. Exley's correspondence (1) on our paper (2) in terms of: (ⅰ) his concerns over the definition of "hydroxyaluminosilicate"; and (ⅱ) his alternative explanation for our findings.rn(ⅰ) We have used hydroxyaluminosilicate (HAS) as a term to indicate that Al is coordinated to OH groups as well as O-Si groups, including Al bound to the surface of polysilicate in aqueous environments, and with evidence of some imogolite-like configuration.