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New Polysaccharide with a Long Evolutionary History.
- Source :
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Plant Cell . Jun2018, Vol. 30 Issue 6, p1165-1166. 2p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Neofunctionalization could have occurred when the modern rosette-shaped cellulose synthase complex evolved near the base of the charophytic algae, making linear terminal complex cellulose synthases redundant. Cellulose synthase has a prokaryotic origin, and the arabinoglucan synthase, AGlcS, is strikingly similar to the prokaryotic homologs as well as cellulose synthases in fungi, oomycetes, and even a few animals. The discovery of the mixed-linkage arabinoglucan presents us with the only known polysaccharide synthesized by a member of the cellulose synthase superfamily featuring both hexosyl and pentosyl residues in its backbone. [Extracted from the article]
- Subjects :
- *POLYSACCHARIDES
*CELLULOSE synthase
*SCIENTIFIC method
*PLANT cell walls
*XYLANS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10404651
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Plant Cell
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158064411
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00331