TY - JOUR
T1 - Microtubules and cellulose biosynthesis
T2 - The emergence of new players
AU - Li, Shundai
AU - Lei, Lei
AU - Yingling, Yaroslava G.
AU - Gu, Ying
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by Pennsylvania State University to S. Li; the National Science Foundation (Grant no. MCB-1121375 to L. Lei and Y. Gu); and the Center for LignoCellulose Structure and Formation, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by DOE, Office of Science, BES under Award # DE-SC0001090 to Y.G. Yingling.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Microtubules determine the orientation of newly formed cellulose microfibrils in expanding cells. There are many hypotheses regarding how the information is transduced across the plasma membrane from microtubules to cellulose microfibrils. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the co-alignment between microtubules and cellulose microfibrils were not revealed until the recent discovery of cellulose synthase interacting (CSI) proteins. Characterization of CSIs and additional cellulose synthase-associated proteins will greatly advance the knowledge of how cellulose microfibrils are organized.
AB - Microtubules determine the orientation of newly formed cellulose microfibrils in expanding cells. There are many hypotheses regarding how the information is transduced across the plasma membrane from microtubules to cellulose microfibrils. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the co-alignment between microtubules and cellulose microfibrils were not revealed until the recent discovery of cellulose synthase interacting (CSI) proteins. Characterization of CSIs and additional cellulose synthase-associated proteins will greatly advance the knowledge of how cellulose microfibrils are organized.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pbi.2015.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.pbi.2015.09.002
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26476686
AN - SCOPUS:84945185770
SN - 1369-5266
VL - 28
SP - 76
EP - 82
JO - Current Opinion in Plant Biology
JF - Current Opinion in Plant Biology
ER -