In 1665, the British polymath Robert Hooke published an unexpectedly popular picture book, “Micrographia.” It featured drawings of household objects and inhabitants that were normally barely ...

New transporter for recycling of bacterial cell wall found Date: January 26, 2023 Source: Umea University Summary: A transporter which some bacteria use to recycle fragments of their cell wall has ...

A groundbreaking study from Michigan State University (MSU), recently published in Nature Communications, has revealed how ...

Plant cell wall growth is typically described as a simple process, but researchers using a microscope that can resolve images on the nanoscale level have observed something more complex.

Plant cell walls incorporate a variety of acetylated polysaccharides. In addition to enzymes catalysing acetylation (acetyltransferases), plants could produce enzymes to remove acetyl groups ...

Clues To How Plants Form Cell Walls Could Aid Biofuels, Nanotech Date: March 1, 2008 Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst Summary: When plant cells divide, they assemble molecular building ...

Plant cell walls are composites of minute plant fibers interlaced with many different chains of simple sugars, or polymers, that make the structure strong, Carpita said. While studying how cell walls ...

After fortuitously identifying this class of genes regulated by microtubule integrity after mitotic exit but before cytokinesis, when the cell splits into two, Dr. Lee went on to investigate how ...

Plant cell walls have a special ability to expand without breaking or weakening, which is crucial for plant growth. New research has shown that the cellulose skeleton of the plant cell wall is what ...

Plant cells are armored with a stiff cell wall, so “my image of a plant cell was the cytoplasm sitting in a cage, and nobody goes anywhere,” Maliga said. The genetic evidence for transfers posed a ...