title: Cellulose: how many cellulose synthases to make a plant?
abstract: Many questions remain about the biosynthesis of cellulose, the major plant cell wall component, not least of which is why plants have so many genes for the cellulose synthase catalytic subunit. Perhaps multiple isoforms of cellulose synthase are needed in the same cell for the formation of functional dimeric complexes.
authors: MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Room 110 Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. perrinr1@pilot.msu.edu
authors: R M
authors: RM
authors: Perrin
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D002473:Cell Wall; D002482:Cellulose / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D005964:Glucosyltransferases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D002482:Cellulose; C420969:CESA8 protein, Arabidopsis; D005964:Glucosyltransferases; C457769:PRC1 protein, Arabidopsis; C028634:cellulose synthase (UDP-forming)