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ArticleNature communications2025

Glucomannan engineering highlights roles of galactosyl modification in fine-tuning cellulose-glucomannan interaction in Arabidopsis cell walls.

Yoshihisa Yoshimi, Li Yu, Rosalie Cresswell, Xinyu Guo, Alberto Echevarría-Poza, Jan J Lyczakowski, Ray Dupree, Toshihisa Kotake, Paul Dupree

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Yoshihisa YoshimiDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, The Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6734-6677
Li YuDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, The Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8820-6705
Rosalie CresswellDepartment of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
Xinyu GuoDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, The Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK.
Alberto Echevarría-PozaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, The Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK.
Jan J LyczakowskiDepartment of Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, Krakow, 30-387, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7694-8629
Ray DupreeDepartment of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3334-0429
Toshihisa KotakeDivision of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8642, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1110-5006
Paul DupreeDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, The Downing Site, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK. pd101@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9270-6286

Funding

RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/L014130/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Widely found in most plant lineages, β-mannans are structurally diverse polysaccharides that can bind to cellulose fibrils to form the complex polysaccharide architecture of the cell wall. How changes in polysaccharide structure influence its cell wall solubility or promote appropriate interaction with cellulose fibrils is poorly understood. Glucomannan backbones acquire variable patterns of galactosyl substitutions, depending on plant developmental stage and species. Here, we show that fine-tuning of galactosyl modification on glucomannans is achieved by the differing acceptor recognition of mannan α-galactosyltransferases (MAGTs). Biochemical analysis and

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ArabidopsisCelluloseCell WallGalactoseMannansArabidopsis ProteinsGalactosyltransferases(1-6)-alpha-glucomannanArabidopsis ProteinsCelluloseGalactoseGalactosyltransferasesMannans

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PMID39890794
PMCPMC11785759

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