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Soluble and Membrane-Bound β-Glucosidases Are Involved in Trimming the Xyloglucan Backbone.
Plant physiology - 1 Feb 2017
Sampedro Javier, Valdivia Elene R, Fraga Patricia, Iglesias Natalia, Revilla Gloria, Zarra Ignacio
Abstract excerpt
In many flowering plants, xyloglucan is a major component of primary cell walls, where it plays an important role in growth regulation. Xyloglucan can be degraded by a suite of exoglycosidases that remove specific sugars. In this work, we show that the xyloglucan backbone, formed by (1→4)-linked β-d-glucopyranosyl residues, can be attacked by two different Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) β-glucosidases from...
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