The chemistry of lanthanides in biology: recent discoveries, emerging principles, and technological applications

JA Cotruvo Jr - ACS central science, 2019 - ACS Publications
The essential biological role of rare earth elements lay hidden until the discovery in 2011
that lanthanides are specifically incorporated into a bacterial methanol dehydrogenase. Only …

The multifaceted role of pectin methylesterase inhibitors (PMEIs)

A Wormit, B Usadel - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Plant cell walls are complex and dynamic structures that play important roles in growth and
development, as well as in response to stresses. Pectin is a major polysaccharide of cell …

Homogalacturonan-modifying enzymes: structure, expression, and roles in plants

F Sénéchal, C Wattier, C Rustérucci… - Journal of experimental …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the changes affecting the plant cell wall is a key element in addressing its
functional role in plant growth and in the response to stress. Pectins, which are the main …

Tuning of pectin methylesterification: consequences for cell wall biomechanics and development

G Levesque-Tremblay, J Pelloux, SA Braybrook… - Planta, 2015 - Springer
Main conclusion Recent publications have increased our knowledge of how pectin
composition and the degree of homogalacturonan methylesterification impact the …

Cell-wall damage activates DOF transcription factors to promote wound healing and tissue regeneration in Arabidopsis thaliana

A Zhang, K Matsuoka, A Kareem, M Robert, P Roszak… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Wound healing is a fundamental property of plants and animals that requires recognition of
cellular damage to initiate regeneration. In plants, wounding activates a defense response …

[HTML][HTML] The calcium-mediated homogalacturonan pectin complexation in cell walls contributes the firmness increase in loquat fruit during postharvest storage

W Huang, Y Shi, H Yan, H Wang, D Wu… - Journal of Advanced …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Postharvest textural changes in fruit are mainly divided into softening and
lignification. Loquat fruit could have severe lignification with increased firmness during …

Monitoring polysaccharide dynamics in the plant cell wall

C Voiniciuc, M Pauly, B Usadel - Plant physiology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Monitoring Polysaccharide Dynamics in the Plant Cell Wall | Plant Physiology | Oxford
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Endosome and Golgi‐associated degradation (EGAD) of membrane proteins regulates sphingolipid metabolism

O Schmidt, Y Weyer, V Baumann, MA Widerin… - The EMBO …, 2019 - embopress.org
Cellular homeostasis requires the ubiquitin‐dependent degradation of membrane proteins.
This was assumed to be mediated exclusively either by endoplasmic reticulum‐associated …

Fascinating fasciclins: a surprisingly widespread family of proteins that mediate interactions between the cell exterior and the cell surface

GJ Seifert - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
The Fasciclin 1 (FAS1) domain is an ancient structural motif in extracellular proteins present
in all kingdoms of life and particularly abundant in plants. The FAS1 domain accommodates …

MUCILAGE-RELATED10 produces galactoglucomannan that maintains pectin and cellulose architecture in Arabidopsis seed mucilage

C Voiniciuc, MHW Schmidt, A Berger, B Yang… - Plant …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Plants invest a lot of their resources into the production of an extracellular matrix built of
polysaccharides. While the composition of the cell wall is relatively well characterized, the …