Lignins: Natural polymers from oxidative coupling of 4-hydroxyphenyl- propanoids

By J. Ralph, K. Lundquist, G. Brunow, F. Lu, Hoon Kim, P. Schatz, J. Marita, R. Hatfield, S. Ralph, Jørgen Holst Christensen and 1 more. Phytochemistry Reviews, 2004

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. R. Sun
2. J. Wen
3. Shaolong Sun
4. Bai-Liang Xue
5. J. Ralph
6. C. Chapple
7. A. Gutiérrez
8. J. D. del Río

In Biotechnology

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2. C. Chapple
3. T. Umezawa
4. J. Ralph
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6. David Ibarra
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8. J. D. del Río

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2. C. Chapple
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4. J. Wen
5. Bai-Liang Xue
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Citations in the corpus

• Allelic Association, Chemical Characterization and Saccharification Properties of brown midrib Mutants of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) (2008, background): “It is unclear if 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde is present as a native compound of lignin, as has been observed in several other species [22, 38], or whether it is derived from p-coumaraldehyde, the precursor of the monolignol p-coumaryl alcohol.”
• Plant cell walls and cell‐wall polysaccharides: structures, properties and uses in food products (2006, background): “…a complex, hydrophobic polymer resulting from the oxidative polymerisation of three main types of hydroxycinnamyl alcohol precursors (monolignols) in addition to other phenolic monomers and is linked to non-cellulosic wall polysaccharides (Table 1) by ester and ether linkages (Ralph et al., 2004).”
• Isolation and structural characterization of the milled-wood lignin from Paulownia fortunei wood. (2009, methodology): “…of the structure of the inter-unit linkages present (Balakshin et al., 2003, 2005; Capanema et al., 2001, 2004, 2005; Ibarra et al., 2007a,b; Ralph et al., 1999, 2004b; Rencoret et al., 2008; del Río et al., 2008; Martínez et al., 2008) and enabled the description of new lignin…”
• Peroxidase-dependent cross-linking reactions of p-hydroxycinnamates in plant cell walls (2004, background): “polymerization is not controlled by enzymes or proteins and no exact primary structure is therefore stipulated – it is essentially a combinatorial process like the coupling of the ferulates themselves (to give the various DFAs) (Ralph et al., 2004).”
• Lignin Biosynthesis and Structure1 (2010, background): “This radical-radical coupling occurs in a chemicalcombinatorial fashion; thus, the ratio of each of the possible coupling products depends largely on the chemical nature of each of the monomers and the conditions in the cell wall (Ralph et al., 2004).”
• Structural characterization of milled wood lignins from different eucalypt species (2008, methodology): “2D-NMR 2D-NMR provides information of the structure of the whole macromolecule and is a powerful tool for lignin structural characterization (Ralph et al. 1999, 2004b; Capanema et al. 2001, 2004, 2005; Balakshin et al. 2003; Lu and Ralph 2005; Ibarra et al. 2007a,b) that enabled description of new…”
• Solution-state 2D NMR of Ball-milled Plant Cell Wall Gels in DMSO-d6 (2008, background): “The monomers are primarily the three monolignols (the hydroxycinnamyl alcohols p-coumaryl, coniferyl, and sinapyl alcohols), but also various other available monomers [4, 37, 41].”