Annual Plant Reviews, Plant Polysaccharides

Plant Polysaccharides, an exceptional new volume in
Wiley-Blackwell's successful Annual Plant Reviews series,
covers the polysaccharides and proteins that form the fundamental
architecture of the plant cell wall, and the genes that encode the
cellular machinery that synthesizes them.

The volume focuses on the evolution of the many families of
genes whose products are required to make a particular kind of
polysaccharide, bringing attention to the specific biochemical
properties of the proteins to the level of kinds of sugar linkages
they make.

Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, this
exceptional new volume provides cutting edge up-to-date information
on such important topics as cell wall biology, composition and
biosynthesis, glycosyltransferases, hydroxyproline-rich
glycoproteins, enzymatic modification of plant cell wall
polysaccharides, glycan engineering in transgenic plants, and
polysaccharide nanobiotechnology.

Drawing together some of the world's leading experts in
these areas, the editor, Peter Ulvskov, has provided a landmark
volume that is essential reading for plant and crop scientists,
biochemists, molecular biologists and geneticists. All libraries in
universities and research establishments

where plant sciences, agriculture, biological, biochemical and
molecular sciences are studied and taught should have copies of
this important volume.

Autorentext
Peter Ulvskov is based at the Department of Plant Biology & Biotechnology, Copenhagen University, Denmark.

Zusammenfassung
Plant Polysaccharides, an exceptional new volume in Wiley-Blackwell's successful Annual Plant Reviews series, covers the polysaccharides and proteins that form the fundamental architecture of the plant cell wall, and the genes that encode the cellular machinery that synthesizes them. The volume focuses on the evolution of the many families of genes whose products are required to make a particular kind of polysaccharide, bringing attention to the specific biochemical properties of the proteins to the level of kinds of sugar linkages they make.

Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, this exceptional new volume provides cutting edge up-to-date information on such important topics as cell wall biology, composition and biosynthesis, glycosyltransferases, hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins, enzymatic modification of plant cell wall polysaccharides, glycan engineering in transgenic plants, and polysaccharide nanobiotechnology.

Drawing together some of the world's leading experts in these areas, the editor, Peter Ulvskov, has provided a landmark volume that is essential reading for plant and crop scientists, biochemists, molecular biologists and geneticists. All libraries in universities and research establishments

where plant sciences, agriculture, biological, biochemical and molecular sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this important volume.

Inhalt
Preface. Dedication.

Contributors.

1 Cell Wall Polysaccharide Composition and Covalent Crosslinking (Stephen C. Fry).

1.1 Remit.

1.2 The classic primary cell walls of dicots.

1.3 Secondary cell walls.

1.4 Taxonomic consideration of primary cell walls.

1.5 Covalent bonds between wall polysaccharides.

1.6 Methodology.

1.7 Conclusions.

Acknowledgements.

References.

2 Dissection of Plant Cell Walls by High-throughput Methods (Staffan Persson, Iben Sørensen, Isabel Moller, William Willats and Markus Pauly).

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Enzyme fingerprinting.

2.3 Structural determination of oligosaccharides.

2.4 Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).

2.5 Microarray-based polymer profiling.

2.6 Additional high-throughput methods.

2.7 Future perspectives.

References.

3 Approaches to Chemical Synthesis of Pectic Oligosaccharides (Sergey A. Nepogodiev, Robert A. Field and Iben Damager).

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Pectic polysaccharides: structures and availability of fragments from natural sources.

3.3 Reported preparations of pectic oligosaccharides by chemical synthesis.

3.4 Oligosaccharide synthesis basic principles and key features.

3.5 Synthesis of homogalacturonan fragments.

3.6 Rhamnogalacturonan-II fragments.

3.7 Rhamnogalacturonan-I fragments.

3.8 Future perspective.

References.

4 Annotating Carbohydrate-active Enzymes in Plant Genomes: Present Challenges (Pedro M. Coutinho and Bernard Henrissat).

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 CAZy: what's behind the name?

4.3 Plant CAZymes: the quest for 'function'.

4.4 Plant CAZymes: problems in functional annotation.

References.

5 Biosynthesis of Plant Cell Wall and Related Polysaccharides by Enzymes of the GT2 and GT48 Families (Bruce A. Stone, Andrew K. Jacobs, Maria Hrmova, Rachel A. Burton and Geoffrey B. Fincher).

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Structures and distribution of ß-d-glucans synthesized by GT2 and GT48 enzymes.

5.3 Early biochemical approaches to plant ß-d-glucan synthases.

5.4 Functional genomics and the identification of GT2 cellulose synthases.

5.5 Identification of the functions of other GT2 enzymes from plants.

5.6 Comparative genomics and the identification of GT2 (1,3;1,4)-ß-d-glucan synthases.

5.7 Genes for GT2 synthases for bacterial (1,3)-ß-d-glucans and related polysaccharide.

5.8 Enzymic properties and catalytic mechanisms of the GT2 proteins.

5.9 Subcellular locations of GT2 enzymes in plants.

5.10 Proteomics and biochemical approaches to the identification of GT48 (1,3)-ß-d-glucan synthases from plants.

5.11 Enzymic properties of the GT48 proteins.

5.12 Future role of biochemistry in the characterization of GT2 and GT48 enzymes.

5.13 Applications of modified levels of plant ß-d-glucans.

Acknowledgements.

References.

6 Glycosyltransferases of the GT8 Family (Yanbin Yin, Debra Mohnen, Ivana Gelineo-Albersheim, Ying Xu and Michael G. Hahn ).

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 Phylogeny of family GT8.

6.3 GT8 clades related to plant cell wall polysaccharide synthesis.

6.4 GT8 clades not related to cell wall synthesis.

6.5 Conclusions.

Acknowledgements.

References.

7 Genes and Enzymes of the GT31 Family: Towards Unravelling the Function(s) of the Plant Glycosyltransferase Family Members (Jack Egelund, Miriam Ellis, Monika Doblin, Yongmei Qu and Antony Bacic).

7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Identification and characterization of the first ß-(1,3)-GalTs.

7.3 Grouping of accessions based on their phylogenetic relationship.

7.4 Conserved motifs and implications for catalysis.

7.5 Domains conserved within the plant-specific clades.

7.6 Conclusions.

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