New hope for old dreams: evidence that plant cellulose synthase genes have finally been identified.

New hope for old dreams: evidence that plant cellulose synthase genes have finally been identified.

It is common in the cellulose literature to read that cellulose is the most abundant macromolecule on earth. Authors perhaps hoped that the abundance of the polymer would compensate for the lack of progress in understanding the biochemistry and molecular biology of its synthesis in higher plants! Despite substantial effort, cellulose biogenesis has remained for decades one of the most enigmatic...

Cellulose in cyanobacteria. Origin of vascular plant cellulose synthase?

Although cellulose biosynthesis among the cyanobacteria has been suggested previously, we present the first conclusive evidence, to our knowledge, of the presence of cellulose in these organisms. Based on the results of x-ray diffraction, electron microscopy of microfibrils, and cellobiohydrolase I-gold labeling, we report the occurrence of cellulose biosynthesis in nine species representing th...

Trafficking of the plant cellulose synthase complex.

Cellulose synthase-like (CSL) genes of rice

Genetic analysis of polyketide synthase and peptide synthase genes of ‎cyanobacteria as a mining tool for new pharmaceutical compounds

Cyanobacteria are considered a promising source for new ‎pharmaceutical lead compounds and a large number of chemically diverse and ‎bioactive metabolites have been obtained from cyanobacteria. Despite of ‎several worldwide studies on prevalence of NRPSs and PKSs among the ‎cyanobacteria, none of them included Iranian cyanobacteria of Kermanshah ‎province. Therefore, the aim of this study was t...