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PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 6, Pages 693-701Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013679111111
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callose; cellulose; cell plate; cell wall; sucrose synthase; UDP-glucose transferase
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Synthesis of callose (beta -1,3-glucan) in plants has been a topic of much debate over the past several decades. Callose synthase could not be purified to homogeneity and most partially purified cellulose synthase preparations yielded beta -1,3-glucan in vitro, leading to the interpretation that cellulose synthase: might be able to synthesize callose. While a rapid progress has been made on the genes involved in cellulose synthesis in the past five years, identification of genes for callose synthases has proven difficult because cognate genes had not been identified in other organisms. An Arabidopsis gene encoding a putative cell plate-specific callose synthase catalytic subunit (CalS1) was recently cloned. CalS1 shares high sequence homology with the well-characterized yeast beta -1,3-glucan synthase and transgenic plant cells over-expressing CalS1 display higher callose synthase activity and accumulate more callose. The callose synthase complex exists in at least two distinct forms in different tissues and interacts with phragmoplastin, UDP-glucose transferase, Rop1 and, possibly, annexin. There are 12 CalS isozymes in Arabidopsis, and each may be tissue-specific and/or regulated under different physiological conditions responding to biotic and abiotic stresses.
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