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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Identifying the origin of local flexibility in a carbohydrate polymer.

Kelvin Anggara, Yuntao Zhu, Giulio Fittolani, Yang Yu, Theodore Tyrikos-Ergas, Martina Delbianco, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb, Peter H Seeberger, Klaus Kern

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Kelvin AnggaraNanoscale Science Department, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany; k.anggara@fkf.mpg.de peter.seeberger@mpikg.mpg.de k.kern@fkf.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0001-8598-8035
Yuntao ZhuBiomolecular Systems Department, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6732-6529
Giulio FittolaniBiomolecular Systems Department, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4961-7565
Yang YuBiomolecular Systems Department, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
Theodore Tyrikos-ErgasBiomolecular Systems Department, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7214-0924
Martina DelbiancoBiomolecular Systems Department, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4580-9597
Stephan RauschenbachNanoscale Science Department, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Sabine AbbNanoscale Science Department, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Peter H SeebergerBiomolecular Systems Department, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476 Potsdam, Germany; k.anggara@fkf.mpg.de peter.seeberger@mpikg.mpg.de k.kern@fkf.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0003-3394-8466
Klaus KernNanoscale Science Department, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany; k.anggara@fkf.mpg.de peter.seeberger@mpikg.mpg.de k.kern@fkf.mpg.de.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Correlating the structures and properties of a polymer to its monomer sequence is key to understanding how its higher hierarchy structures are formed and how its macroscopic material properties emerge. Carbohydrate polymers, such as cellulose and chitin, are the most abundant materials found in nature whose structures and properties have been characterized only at the submicrometer level. Here, by imaging single-cellulose chains at the nanoscale, we determine the structure and local flexibility of cellulose as a function of its sequence (primary structure) and conformation (secondary structure). Changing the primary structure by chemical substitutions and geometrical variations in the secondary structure allow the chain flexibility to be engineered at the single-linkage level. Tuning local flexibility opens opportunities for the bottom-up design of carbohydrate materials.

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automated synthesisglycan flexibilitystructure–property relationship

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PMID34074784
PMCPMC8201824

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