Cereal β-glucan is a type of valuable dietary fiber that mainly exists in the aleurone, subaleurone, and endosperm some cereal grains. β-Glucan acknowledged as functional food ingredient owing to its multiple health benefits, including prevention diabetes, reduction incidence cardiovascular disease, antitumor effects, antioxidant activities, immunostimulation. It well documented cellulose synth...

Background Cellulose is a homopolysaccharide composed of extracellular D-glucose monomers connected by glycosidic linkages in b-1,4 conformation which can be synthesized by a variety of living organisms, possessing numerous applications in food, pharmaceutical, medical area, etc.[1][2]. In 1990, cellulose synthase operon encoding four proteins required for bacterial cellulose (BC) biosynthesis ...

Complete cellulose synthesis is required to form functional cell walls and to facilitate proper cell expansion during plant growth. AtCESA2 is a member of the cellulose synthase A family in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) that participates in cell wall formation. By analysis of transgenic seedlings, we demonstrated that AtCESA2 was expressed in all organs, except root hairs. The atcesa2 muta...

Based on 3 generations transcriptome sequencing technology-PacBio SMRT single-molecule real-time method, supplemented with 2 generation a complete and accurate unigene library was constructed. After comparing closely related species, the cellulose synthase gene ( CesA )  4 ,  7 9  gene sequences of  Miscanthus lutarioriparius  were spliced named as  MlCesA4 Ml...

Anisotropic plant cell growth depends on the coordination between the orientation of cortical microtubules and the orientation of nascent cellulose microfibrils. CELLULOSE SYNTHASE INTERACTIVE1 (CSI1) is a key scaffold protein that guides primary cellulose synthase complexes (CSCs) along cortical microtubules during cellulose biosynthesis. Here, we investigated the function of the CSI1-like pro...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Cellulose is the most abundant biomolecule on the planet, yet the mechanism by which it is synthesized by higher plants remains largely unknown. In Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh, synthesis of cellulose in the primary cell wall requires three different cellulose synthase genes (AtCesA1, AtCesA3, and AtCesA6-related genes [AtCesA2, AtCesA5, and AtCesA6]). The multiple respo...

Tunicates are the only animals that perform cellulose biosynthesis. The tunicate gene for cellulose synthase, Ci-CesA, was likely acquired by horizontal transfer from bacteria and was a key innovation in the evolution of tunicates. Transposon-based mutagenesis in an ascidian, Ciona intestinalis, has generated a mutant, swimming juvenile (sj). Ci-CesA is the gene responsible for the sj mutant, i...