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Science 18 February 1977:
Vol. 195. no. 4279, pp. 679 - 681
DOI: 10.1126/science.195.4279.679
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Cellulases Can Enhance beta-Glucan Synthesis

YUK-SHAN WONG 1, GEOFFREY B. FINCHER 1, and GORDON A. MACLACHLAN 1

1 Biology Department, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 3G1

beta-Glucan synthesis from uridine diphosphoglucose by pea epicotyl tissue slices is increased two- to threefold by preliminary, short-term treatment with cellulases purified from auxin-treated peas. We suggest that cellulases introduce chain ends in accessible regions of cellulose microfibrils which then act as primers for chain elongation.

Submitted on August 11, 1976
Revised on September 17, 1976


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