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SUBMITTER: Chiniquy D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3479505 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chiniquy Dawn D Sharma Vaishali V Schultink Alex A Baidoo Edward E EE Rautengarten Carsten C Cheng Kun K Carroll Andrew A Ulvskov Peter P Harholt Jesper J Keasling Jay D JD Pauly Markus M Scheller Henrik V HV Ronald Pamela C PC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121001 42
Xylan is the second most abundant polysaccharide on Earth and represents an immense quantity of stored energy for biofuel production. Despite its importance, most of the enzymes that synthesize xylan have yet to be identified. Xylans have a backbone of β-1,4-linked xylose residues with substitutions that include α-(1→2)-linked glucuronosyl, 4-O-methyl glucuronosyl, and α-1,2- and α-1,3-arabinofuranosyl residues. The substitutions are structurally diverse and vary by taxonomy, with grass xylan re ...[more]