ReviewGenome biology2005
The expansin superfamily.
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- Integrated physiological, biochemical, and gene expression responses of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) to time-dependent salinity stress.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
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- Molecular Biomarkers in IgE Immunoassays Used for Grass Pollen Allergy Diagnosis in European Clinical Settings.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
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- Pathogen-Mediated Cell Fusion and Actin Cytoskeleton.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Comparative multi "omics" profiling ofFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Genome-wide analysis of expansin and aquaporin genes and their association with auxin-related metabolites during flower opening inFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
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- Unraveling dwarfing mechanisms in Hedychium: insights into HcNAC140 and HcEXPA4 functionality.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Comprehensive genomic analysis of the expansin gene family in pecan (Carya illinoinensis) and their transcriptional responses to stresses and fruit abscission.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Integrated Transcriptomic and Biochemical Analyses Reveal the Root Development-Promoting Mechanism ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Overexpression of the Wild Soybean Expansin GenePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A new phenotyping method for root growth studies in compacted soil validated by GWAS in barley.Plant methods · 2025Article
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Abstract
The expansin superfamily of plant proteins is made up of four families, designated alpha-expansin, beta-expansin, expansin-like A and expansin-like B. alpha-Expansin and beta-expansin proteins are known to have cell-wall loosening activity and to be involved in cell expansion and other developmental events during which cell-wall modification occurs. Proteins in these two families bind tightly to the cell wall and their activity is typically assayed by their stimulation of cell-wall extension and stress relaxation; no bona fide enzymatic activity has been detected for these proteins. Alpha-expansin proteins and some, but not all, beta-expansin proteins are implicated as catalysts of 'acid growth', the enlargement of plant cells stimulated by low extracellular pH. A divergent group of beta-expansin genes are expressed at high levels in the pollen of grasses but not of other plant groups. They probably function to loosen maternal cell walls during growth of the pollen tube towards the ovary. All expansins consist of two domains; domain 1 is homologous to the catalytic domain of proteins in the glycoside hydrolase family 45 (GH45); expansin domain 2 is homologous to group-2 grass pollen allergens, which are of unknown biological function. Experimental evidence suggests that expansins loosen cell walls via a nonenzymatic mechanism that induces slippage of cellulose microfibrils in the plant cell wall.
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