Another Step Closer to Understanding Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis: The Crystal Structure of FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE1[
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In Brief0 Comments
/
IN BRIEF by Nancy R. Hofmann [email protected]
Plant cell walls consist of cellulose microfibrils embedded in a matrix of polymers including hemicelluloses. As one of the main hemicelluloses in the cell walls of dicots, xyloglucan is an important target of study to understand plant cell walls…
It’s Not Easy Not Being Green: Breakthroughs in Chlorophyll Breakdown
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In Brief
IN BRIEF by Jennifer Mach [email protected]
Plants can dispose of organs such as leaves and recycle the nutrients in these organs into new leaves, seeds, or storage organs. However, when separated from its photosystem proteins, chlorophyll can be phototoxic, absorbing light and producing high-energy…
Invisible No Longer: Peptidoglycan in Moss Chloroplasts
Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: In BriefIN BRIEF by Nancy Hofmann [email protected]
Most bacteria have a peptidoglycan layer between the inner and outer membranes (reviewed in Typas et al., 2012). The cyanobacterial endosymbiont that gave rise to plastids would have contained such a peptidoglycan wall including d-amino acids. Indeed, peptidoglycan…