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Science 14 August 1981:
Vol. 213. no. 4509, pp. 761 - 763
DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4509.761
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The Permeability of Plant Cell Walls as Measured by Gel Filtration Chromatography

MARK TEPFER 1 and IAIN E. P. TAYLOR 1

1 Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2B1

The permeability of plant cell walls to macromolecules may limit the ability of enzymes to alter the biochemical and physical properties of the wall. Proteins of molecular weight up to 60,000 can permeate a substantial portion of the cell wall. Measurements of wall permeability in which cells are exposed to hypertonic solutions of macromolecules may seriously underestimate wall permeability.

Submitted on April 15, 1981


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