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Informationen zum Autor Peter Ulvskov is based at the Department of Plant Biology & Biotechnology, Copenhagen University, Denmark. Klappentext 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. ...
