Structural Cell Wall Proteins

Structural Cell Wall Proteins.

Introduction: plant cell wall proteins.

The cell wall and its underlying plasma membrane represent the dynamic interface between a plant cell and its environment, which includes neighboring cells. Biology texts commonly describe plant cell walls, but rarely acknowledge the existence and importance of cell wall proteins, making them the Rodney Dangerfields of plant biology. This set of multi-author reviews provides the reader with a c...

Candida albicans cell wall proteins.

The Candida albicans cell wall maintains the structural integrity of the organism in addition to providing a physical contact interface with the environment. The major components of the cell wall are fibrillar polysaccharides and proteins. The proteins of the cell wall are the focus of this review. Three classes of proteins are present in the candidal cell wall. One group of proteins attach to ...

Isolation of plant cell wall proteins.

The quality of a proteomic analysis of a cell compartment strongly depends on the reliability of the isolation procedure for the cell compartment of interest. Plant cell walls possess specific drawbacks: (1) the lack of a surrounding membrane may result in the loss of cell wall proteins (CWP) during the isolation procedure; (2) polysaccharide networks of cellulose, hemicelluloses, and pectins f...

Cell wall proteins of Aquaspirillum serpens.

The Triton X-100-insoluble wall fraction of Aquaspirillum serpens VHA contained three major proteins: the regularly structured (RS) superficial protein (molecular weight 140,000) and two peptidoglycan-associated proteins (molecular weights, 32,000 and 33,000). The molecular arrangement and interactions of the outer membrane and RS proteins were examined with the use of bifunctional cross-linkin...