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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2018

Distribution, mobility, and anchoring of lignin-related oxidative enzymes in Arabidopsis secondary cell walls.

Eva Yi Chou, Mathias Schuetz, Natalie Hoffmann, Yoichiro Watanabe, Richard Sibout, A Lacey Samuels

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

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55 citing papers in PubMed, 112 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Eva Yi ChouDepartment of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Mathias SchuetzDepartment of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Natalie HoffmannDepartment of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Yoichiro WatanabeDepartment of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Richard SiboutDepartment of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
A Lacey SamuelsDepartment of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
University of British Columbia · CACentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lignin is an important phenolic biopolymer that provides strength and rigidity to the secondary cell walls of tracheary elements, sclereids, and fibers in vascular plants. Lignin precursors, called monolignols, are synthesized in the cell and exported to the cell wall where they are polymerized into lignin by oxidative enzymes such as laccases and peroxidases. In Arabidopsis thaliana, a peroxidase (PRX64) and laccase (LAC4) are shown to localize differently within cell wall domains in interfascicular fibers: PRX64 localizes to the middle lamella whereas LAC4 localizes throughout the secondary cell wall layers. Similarly, laccases localized to, and are responsible for, the helical depositions of lignin in protoxylem tracheary elements. In addition, we tested the mobility of laccases in the cell wall using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. mCHERRY-tagged LAC4 was immobile in secondary cell wall domains, but mobile in the primary cell wall when ectopically expressed. A small secreted red fluorescent protein (sec-mCHERRY) was engineered as a control and was found to be mobile in both the primary and secondary cell walls. Unlike sec-mCHERRY, the tight anchoring of LAC4 to secondary cell wall domains indicated that it cannot be remobilized once secreted, and this anchoring underlies the spatial control of lignification.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsCell WallGene Expression Regulation, PlantLaccaseLigninPeroxidasesProtein DomainsProtein TransportArabidopsis ProteinsAT5G42180 protein, ArabidopsisLAC4 protein, ArabidopsisLaccaseLigninPeroxidases

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PMID29481639
PMCPMC6018803
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