A large protein complex synthesizes cellulose at the surface of the plant cell. The basic unit of this complex is an enzyme known as cellulose synthase. The protein complex contains up to 36 of these ...

The Structure of the Catalytic Domain of a Plant Cellulose Synthase and Its Assembly into Dimers. The Plant Cell , September 2014 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.126862 Cite This Page : ...

In essence, the scientists have created a blueprint of the factories plants use to make cellulose and to transport it to their cell surfaces. These factories are known as cellulose synthase ...

Individual cellulose chains (dark brown) are synthesized by plasma membrane-bound (purple) cellulose synthase enzyme complexes ... a major constituent of all plant cell walls – a team of ...

A comprehensive look at how plants build cellulose ... a grouping of different kinds of proteins -- called the cellulose synthase complex, and that the main component of this complex is a unique ...

Within a plant cell, a complex of proteins called the cellulose synthase complex builds a chain of cellulose. Regulation of this process determines a variety of properties like when and how quickly it ...

Somerville, along with colleague David Ehrhardt and Stanford graduate student Alex Paredez, engineered plants to produce a fluorescent version of cellulose synthase, the enzyme that creates ...

"Our discoveries highlight how Solanaceae plants have adapted a cellulose-synthase like protein hijacked from a core ...

Within a plant cell, a complex of proteins called the cellulose synthase complex builds a chain of cellulose. Regulation of this process determines a variety of properties like when and how ...