CELL WALL POLYSACCHARIDE COMPOSITION AND COVALENT CROSSLINKING
CELL WALL POLYSACCHARIDE COMPOSITION AND COVALENT CROSSLINKING
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10.1002/9781444391015.ch1
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2011-01-01
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Fry, Stephen C.
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Fry, Stephen C.
Genetics now potentially lets us modify the production, crosslinking and degradation of cell wall polysaccharides. There remains, however, the need to test experimentally whether intended modifications of polysaccharide metabolism have successfully been effected in vivo. Simple methods for this are described, including in-vivo radiolabelling, enzymic dissection (e.g. with Driselase) and chromatographic/electrophoretic fractionation of dissection products.After an overview of polysaccharide chemistry, I discuss the structures and taxonomic distribution of wall polysaccharides in charophytes and land plants. Primary and secondary walls are compared.The major wall polysaccharides are cellulose [microfibrillar beta-(1 -> 4)-d-glucan], pectins (alpha-D-galacturonate-rich) and hemicelluloses (lacking galacturonate; hydrogen-bonding to cellulose; extractable by 6 M NaOH at 37 degrees C). Land-plant pectins are anionic polymers built of about four glycosidically interconnected domains (homogalacturonan, rhamnogalacturonans I and II, xylogalacturonan). Hemicelluloses occurring in most/all land plants are alpha-xylo-beta-glucans, beta-xylans (including alpha-arabino-beta-xylans, alpha-glucurono-beta-xylans, etc.) and beta-mannans (including alpha-galacto-beta-mannans, beta-gluco-beta-mannans, etc.). Another hemicellulose [mixed-linkage beta-(1 -> 3)(1 -> 4)-D-glucan) is confined to Equisetum and some Poales.Other taxonomically restricted features of angiosperm primary walls occur in Poales (xylose-poor xyloglucans; feruloylated arabinoxylans); Solanales and Lamiales (characteristic xyloglucans); Caryophyllales (feruloylated pectins); and Alismatales (apiogalacturonan). I also summarize characteristic wall features of charophytes, bryophytes, lycopodiophytes, fern-allies and gymnosperms.The making or breaking of a 'crosslink' (defined as an individual chemical bond, not a whole 'tethering' chain) may cause wall tightening/loosening. Covalent crosslinks include phenolic coupling products, uronoyl esters and amides, and borate diesters.