Pectin: cell biology and prospects for functional analysis

By W. Willats, L. McCartney, W. Mackie, J. Knox. Plant Molecular Biology, 2001

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Food Science, Plant Science

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Plant cell walls and cell‐wall polysaccharides: structures, properties and uses in food products (2006, background): “2006 Institute of Food Science and Technology Trust Fund International Journal of Food Science and Technology 2006, 41 (Supplement 2), 129–143 acid residues that are methyl-esterified and acetylated to different extents depending on the plant species (Willats et al., 2001).”
Growth of the plant cell wall (2005, background): “Pectins are perhaps the most complex polysaccharides in the living world and have several function”
Comparative biochemical and structural characterizations of fungal polygalacturonases (2008, neutral): “…with complex side chains of arabinose, galactose, rhamnose and more rare monosaccharides such as apiose, aceric acid, deoxylyxo-heptulopyranosylaric acid and ketodeoxymanno-octulopyranosylonic acid attached to the galacturonic acid residues (Ridley et al. 2001; Willats et al. 2001).”
Heterogeneity in the chemistry, structure and function of plant cell walls. (2010, background): “As one might expect, this particular form of homogalacturonan is found in regions where cells separat”
Pectin structure and biosynthesis. (2008, background): “(Figure 1c) and exhibits a high degree of cell type and develop-dependent expression in the type and number of sugars, oligosaccharides, and branched oligosaccharides attached to its backbone (Figure 1d) [2,16,26].”
Pectin methylesterase NaPME1 contributes to the emission of methanol during insect herbivory and to the elicitation of defence responses in Nicotiana attenuata (2009, neutral): “Different types of polysaccharides that are rich in galacturonic acid form the backbone of pectin: homoglacturonan (HG), xylogalacturonan (XG), rhamnogalacturonan I (RGI), and rhamnogalacturonan II (RGII) (Willats et al., 2001; Vorwerk et al., 2004).”
Barriers, pathways and processes for uptake, translocation and accumulation of nanomaterials in plants – Critical review (2016, background): “onans) are present near adhered and separated cell walls (Willats et al., 2001), and higher permeability in these regions was indeed documented, e.”