Preferred crystallographic orientation of cellulose in plant primary cell walls
oleh: Dan Ye, Sintu Rongpipi, Sarah N. Kiemle, William J. Barnes, Arielle M. Chaves, Chenhui Zhu, Victoria A. Norman, Alexander Liebman-Peláez, Alexander Hexemer, Michael F. Toney, Alison W. Roberts, Charles T. Anderson, Daniel J. Cosgrove, Esther W. Gomez, Enrique D. Gomez
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2020-09-01 |
Deskripsi
Cellulose is synthesized as microfibrils of β-1,4-linked glucan chains arranged in a crystalline lattice. Here Ye et al. use grazing incidence wide angle X-ray scattering to show that cellulose crystals are preferentially orientated parallel to the plant cell wall, rather than as twisting microfibrils as previously hypothesized.