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. 1987 Mar;83(3):659–671. doi: 10.1104/pp.83.3.659

Structure of Plant Cell Walls 1

XIX. Isolation and Characterization of Wall Polysaccharides from Suspension-Cultured Douglas Fir Cells

Jerry R Thomas 1,2,3, Michael McNeil 1,2,3,2, Alan G Darvill 1,2,3, Peter Albersheim 1,2,3
PMCID: PMC1056422  PMID: 16665304

Abstract

The partial purification and characterization of cell wall polysaccharides isolated from suspension-cultured Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) cells are described. Extraction of isolated cell walls with 1.0 m LiCl solubilized pectic polysaccharides with glycosyl-linkage compositions similar to those of rhamnogalacturonans I and II, pectic polysaccharides isolated from walls of suspension-cultured sycamore cells. Treatment of LiCl-extracted Douglas fir walls with an endo-α-1,4-polygalacturonase released only small, additional amounts of pectic polysaccharide, which had a glycosyl-linkage composition similar to that of rhamnogalacturonan I. Xyloglucan oligosaccharides were released from the endo-α-1,4-polygalacturonase-treated walls by treatment with an endo-β-1,4-glucanase. These oligosaccharides included hepta- and nonasaccharides similar or identical to those released from sycamore cell walls by the same enzyme, and structurally related octa- and decasaccharides similar to those isolated from various angiosperms. Finally, additional xyloglucan and small amounts of xylan were extracted from the endo-β-1,4-glucanase-treated walls by 0.5 n NaOH. The xylan resembled that extracted by NaOH from dicot cell walls in that it contained 2,4- but not 3,4-linked xylosyl residues. In this study, a total of 15% of the cell wall was isolated as pectic material, 10% as xyloglucan, and less than 1% as xylan. The noncellulosic polysaccharides accounted for 26% of the cell walls, cellulose for 23%, protein for 34%, and ash for 5%, for a total of 88% of the cell wall. The cell walls of Douglas fir were more similar to dicot (sycamore) cell walls than to those of graminaceous monocots, because they had a predominance of xyloglucan over xylan as the principle hemicellulose and because they possessed relatively large amounts of rhamnogalacturonan-like pectic polysaccharides.

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