Friday, June 25, 2010, 11:00 am — John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
High-Resolution Magic Angle Spinning (HR-MAS) NMR spectroscopy and Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS) have proven to be valuable tools in the study of plant biochemistry and physiology. Although still in its infancy with regards to plant tissue, HR-MAS is already established as a powerful technique for the NMR analysis of motionally restricted systems. Our expectation is that the application of these methodologies will yield valuable insights concerning the precise functionality of the carbohydrate binding module (CBM) of endo 1,4-b-D-glucanase in Arabidopsis thaliana. While the role of the plant CBM is at present uncertain, microbial CBMs are known to play an essential role in the degradation of crystalline cellulose. Both wild type (WT) and mutant Arabidopsis tissues were subjected to HR-MAS NMR and WAXS analyses to ascertain differences in cell wall polysaccharides, with particular emphasis upon the abundance and organization of crystalline cellulose.
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