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Title: Structure of plant cell walls: XIX. Isolation and characterization of wall polysaccharides from suspension-cultured Douglas fir cells

Abstract

The partial purification and characterization of cell wall polysaccharides isolated from suspension-cultured Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) cells are described. Extraction of isolated cell walls from 1.0 M LiCl solubilized pectic polysaccharides with glycosyl-linkage compositions similar to those of rhamnogalacturonans I and II, pectic polysaccharides isolated from walls of suspension-cultured sycamore cells. Treatment of LiCl-extracted Douglas fir walls with an endo-..cap alpha..-1,4-polygalacturonase released only small, additional amounts of pectic polysaccharide, which had a glycosyl-linkage composition similar to that of rhamnogalacturonan I. Xyloglucan oligosaccharides were released from the endo-..cap alpha..-1,4-polygalacturonase-treated walls by treatment with an endo-..beta..-1,4-glucanase. These oligosaccharides included hepta- and nonasaccharides similar or identical to those released from sycamore cell walls by the same enzyme, and structurally related octa- and decasaccharides similar to those isolated from various angiosperms. Finally, additional xyloglucan and small amounts of xylan were extracted from the endo-..beta..-1,4-glucanase-treated walls by 0.5 N NaOH. The xylan resembled that extracted by NaOH from dicot cell walls in that it contained 2,4- but not 3,4-linked xylosyl residues. In this study, a total of 15% of the cell wall was isolated as pectic material, 10% as xyloglucan, and less than 1% as xylan. The noncellulosic polysaccharides accounted for 25% of the cellmore » walls, cellulose for 23%, protein for 34%, and ash for 5%, for a total of 88% of the cell wall.« less

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Research Org.:
Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6550115
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Plant Physiol.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 83:3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; CELL WALL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYSACCHARIDES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FRACTIONATION; CELLULASE; FIRS; PLANT CELLS; CARBOHYDRATES; CELL CONSTITUENTS; ENZYMES; GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; HYDROLASES; O-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLANTS; SACCHARIDES; SEPARATION PROCESSES; TREES; 550300* - Cytology

Citation Formats

Thomas, J R, McNeil, M, Darvill, A G, and Albersheim, P. Structure of plant cell walls: XIX. Isolation and characterization of wall polysaccharides from suspension-cultured Douglas fir cells. United States: N. p., 1987. Web. doi:10.1104/pp.83.3.659.
Thomas, J R, McNeil, M, Darvill, A G, & Albersheim, P. Structure of plant cell walls: XIX. Isolation and characterization of wall polysaccharides from suspension-cultured Douglas fir cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.83.3.659
Thomas, J R, McNeil, M, Darvill, A G, and Albersheim, P. 1987. "Structure of plant cell walls: XIX. Isolation and characterization of wall polysaccharides from suspension-cultured Douglas fir cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.83.3.659.
@article{osti_6550115,
title = {Structure of plant cell walls: XIX. Isolation and characterization of wall polysaccharides from suspension-cultured Douglas fir cells},
author = {Thomas, J R and McNeil, M and Darvill, A G and Albersheim, P},
abstractNote = {The partial purification and characterization of cell wall polysaccharides isolated from suspension-cultured Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) cells are described. Extraction of isolated cell walls from 1.0 M LiCl solubilized pectic polysaccharides with glycosyl-linkage compositions similar to those of rhamnogalacturonans I and II, pectic polysaccharides isolated from walls of suspension-cultured sycamore cells. Treatment of LiCl-extracted Douglas fir walls with an endo-..cap alpha..-1,4-polygalacturonase released only small, additional amounts of pectic polysaccharide, which had a glycosyl-linkage composition similar to that of rhamnogalacturonan I. Xyloglucan oligosaccharides were released from the endo-..cap alpha..-1,4-polygalacturonase-treated walls by treatment with an endo-..beta..-1,4-glucanase. These oligosaccharides included hepta- and nonasaccharides similar or identical to those released from sycamore cell walls by the same enzyme, and structurally related octa- and decasaccharides similar to those isolated from various angiosperms. Finally, additional xyloglucan and small amounts of xylan were extracted from the endo-..beta..-1,4-glucanase-treated walls by 0.5 N NaOH. The xylan resembled that extracted by NaOH from dicot cell walls in that it contained 2,4- but not 3,4-linked xylosyl residues. In this study, a total of 15% of the cell wall was isolated as pectic material, 10% as xyloglucan, and less than 1% as xylan. The noncellulosic polysaccharides accounted for 25% of the cell walls, cellulose for 23%, protein for 34%, and ash for 5%, for a total of 88% of the cell wall.},
doi = {10.1104/pp.83.3.659},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6550115}, journal = {Plant Physiol.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 83:3,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1987},
month = {Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1987}
}