There is an increased interest on the identification, production, purification, evaluation and
commercialization of new prebiotics with improved properties. Partial hydrolysis of pectin by …

Chemical communication is a phenomenon exhibited by many different organisms and
nowadays is one of the most prominent research areas at the chemistry-microbiology …

Pectin is a highly complex polysaccharide made of three main domains that are covalently
linked one to another, homogalacturonan, rhamnogalacturonan I and rhamnogalacturonan …

UDP-glucose dehydrogenase (UGD) plays a key role in the nucleotide sugar biosynthetic
pathway, as its product UDP-glucuronic acid is the common precursor for arabinose, xylose …

This review is the sixth update of the original article published in 1999 on the application of
MALDI mass spectrometry to the analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates and brings …

A paradigm regarding rhamnogalacturonans II (RGII) is their strictly conserved structure
within a given plant. We developed and employed a fast structural characterization method …

Polysaccharides isolated from medicinal plants and fungi exhibit multiple pharmacological
activities. The biological activities of polysaccharides depend on their chemical …

Background In plants, a large diversity of polysaccharides comprise the cell wall. Each major
type of plant cell wall polysaccharide, including cellulose, hemicellulose, and pectin, has …

Plasmodesmata (PD) pores connect neighbouring plant cells and enable direct transport
across the cell wall. Understanding the molecular composition of these structures is …

All land‐plant cell walls possess hemicelluloses, cellulose and anionic pectin. The walls of
their cousins, the charophytic algae, exhibit some similarities to land plants' but also major …