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PHYTOCHEMISTRY
Volume 112, Issue -, Pages 91-99Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2014.07.009
Keywords
Cellulose biosynthesis; Cellulose microfibril; Catalytic subunit; CESA proteins model; BcsA structure
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- BBSRC [BB/H012923/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H012923/1] Funding Source: Medline
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H012923/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Cellulose is a biopolymer of considerable economic importance. It is synthesised by the cellulose synthase complex (CSC) in species ranging from bacteria to higher plants. Enormous progress in our understanding of bacterial cellulose synthesis has come with the recent publication of both the crystal structure and biochemical characterisation of a purified complex able to synthesis cellulose in vitro. A model structure of a plant CESA protein suggests considerable similarity between the bacterial and plant cellulose synthesis. In this review article we will cover current knowledge of how plant CESA proteins synthesise cellulose. In particular the focus will be on the lessons learned from the recent work on the catalytic mechanism and the implications that new data on cellulose structure has for the assembly of CESA proteins into the large complex that synthesis plant cellulose microfibrils. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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