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ArticlePlant physiology2017

Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Cellulose Microfibrils from Reconstituted Cellulose Synthase.

Sung Hyun Cho, Pallinti Purushotham, Chao Fang, Cassandra Maranas, Sara M Díaz-Moreno, Vincent Bulone, Jochen Zimmer, Manish Kumar, B Tracy Nixon

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Article in Plant physiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
12.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Sung Hyun ChoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8191-7181
Pallinti PurushothamDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908.
Chao FangDepartment of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802.
Cassandra MaranasDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105.
Sara M Díaz-MorenoDivision of Glycoscience, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, SE-10691, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3369-2440
Vincent BuloneDivision of Glycoscience, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, SE-10691, Sweden.
Jochen ZimmerDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8423-2882
Manish KumarDepartment of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5545-3793
B Tracy NixonDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 btn1@psu.edu manish.kumar@psu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3568-5703
Pennsylvania State University · USUniversity of Virginia · USAustralian Research Council · AUKTH Royal Institute of Technology · SEUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cellulose, the major component of plant cell walls, can be converted to bioethanol and is thus highly studied. In plants, cellulose is produced by cellulose synthase, a processive family-2 glycosyltransferase. In plant cell walls, individual β-1,4-glucan chains polymerized by CesA are assembled into microfibrils that are frequently bundled into macrofibrils. An in vitro system in which cellulose is synthesized and assembled into fibrils would facilitate detailed study of this process. Here, we report the heterologous expression and partial purification of His-tagged CesA5 from

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BryopsidaCelluloseGlucosyltransferasesMicrofibrilsPichiaProteolipidsCellulosecellulose synthaseGlucosyltransferasesProteolipidsproteoliposomes

Identifiers

PMID28768815
PMCPMC5580757
OpenAlexW2741906389

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