Journal article
Glycobiology: Cellulose squeezes through
A Endler, C Sánchez-Rodríguez, S Persson
Nature Chemical Biology | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2010
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.480
Abstract
The glucose-based polymer cellulose is of great biological and economical importance; however, little is known about how cellulose is synthesized. Now, structural estimates of one of the cellulose-synthesizing subunits in the bacterium Acetobacter xylinum help to explain the extrusion of the newly synthesized glucan chains.