Journal
CELLULOSE
Volume 11, Issue 3-4, Pages 395-401Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/B:CELL.0000046419.31076.7f
Keywords
cell wall architecture; cellulose microfibrils; cellulose synthase; geometrical model; microtubules
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Cellulose synthase (CESA) molecules are the building blocks and catalytic centers of the CESA complex. The study of mutants in Arabidopsis has led to insight into the structure of these nanomachines. Inside the plasma membrane, the CESA molecules are arranged in complexes, which, apart from the CESA molecules proper, contain other, mostly unidentified, proteins. We developed a theory in which CESA density, together with distance between cellulose microfibrils (CMFs) being deposited and cell geometry, determines wall texture. We have shown earlier how this theory is able to explain the production of axial, helical, helicoid and crossed-polylamellate textures. In the present article we extend this theory to random wall textures.
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