The cellulose synthase complex of the Arabidopsis primary cell wall

拟南芥原代细胞壁的纤维素合酶复合物

• 批准号: DP0557392
• 负责人: Prof Richard Williamson
• 金额: $ 16.3万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0557392
• 关键词: cellulose; synthase; complex; Arabidopsis; primary

The polysaccharide cellulose is the basis for the wood and cotton fibre industries of Australia and much of our research on the mechanism of synthesis has been supported by those industries over the past decade. The present project focuses on the proteins making cellulose and how they organised into functional complexes that are able to make cellulose. The knowledge it provides, together with that from other projects, will move us towards the situation where we can manipulate the rate at which cellulose is produced and change its detailed properties. This opens the way to industry producing fibres with more desirable properties and producing novel cellulose-based materials tailored to specific applications.

多糖纤维素是澳大利亚木材和棉纤维工业的基础，在过去十年中，我们对合成机理的许多研究都得到了这些工业的支持。本项目的重点是制造纤维素的蛋白质以及它们如何组织成能够制造纤维素的功能复合物。它提供的知识，以及其他项目的知识，将使我们能够操纵纤维素生产的速率并改变其详细性质。这为工业生产具有更理想性能的纤维和生产针对特定应用的新型纤维素基材料开辟了道路。