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Matrix polysaccharides affect preferred orientation of cellulose crystals in primary cell walls

Journal Article · · Cellulose
The spatial organization and interactions of constituent components influence cell growth and determine physical and chemical properties of the cell wall, including its rigidity, flexibility, and degradability. Elucidating the interactions between cell wall polysaccharides is crucial for advancing our knowledge of how cell walls are assembled and for designing approaches to efficiently break down cell walls to produce renewable energy and biomaterials. Here, we investigated the effect of defects in the biosynthesis of cell wall components on the nanoscale organization of cellulose in primary cell walls through grazing incidence wide angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS) measurements of hypocotyls of wild type Arabidopsis thaliana and of cellulose, pectin, and xyloglucan (hemicellulose) deficient mutants. GIWAXS reveals changes in lattice spacings, coherence lengths, and relative crystalline content for cellulose between wild type and mutant plants. In addition, X-ray pole figures constructed using GIWAXS and X-ray diffraction (XRD) rocking scans quantify an emerging measure of cellulose organization, the degree of preferred orientation (texture) of cellulose crystals with respect to the cell wall plane. Comparing X-ray pole figures from pectin-deficient and xyloglucan-deficient mutants to that of wild type plants reveals that cellulose texture is disrupted in pectin-deficient mutants, but not in xyloglucan mutants. Furthermore, our results indicate that a deficiency of pectin during cell wall biosynthesis alters cellulose organization in plant cell walls.
Research Organization:
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515; SC0001090
OSTI ID:
2459314
Journal Information:
Cellulose, Journal Name: Cellulose Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 31; ISSN 0969-0239
Publisher:
SpringerCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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