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Edited By
Antony Bacic, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Melbourne, Australia
Geoffrey Fincher, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Adelaide, Australia
Bruce Stone, Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Australia
Audience
Plant physiologists & cell biologists, enzymologists, pollysaccharide chemists, immuno-chemists, immunologists, alternative cancer therapy researchers
Contents
1. Introduction and historical background
2. CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICO-CHEMISTRY
2.1 Chemistry of ?-Glucans
2.2 Physico-Chemistry
of (1,3)-?-Glucans
3. BIOCHEMISTRY
3.1 Plant and Microbial Enzymes Involved in the Depolymerisation of (1,3)-?-d-Glucans and Related
Polysaccharides
3.2 Interactions between Proteins and (1,3)- -Glucans and Related Polysaccharides
3.3 BIOSYNTHETIC ENZYMES
3.3.1
Enzymology and Molecular Genetics of Biosynthetic Enzymes for (1,3)-?-Glucans - Prokaryotes
3.3.2 Biosynthetic Enzymes for (1,3)-?-Glucans
and (1,3;1,6) -?-Glucans in Protozoans and Chromistans: Biochemical Characterization and Molecular Biology
3.3.3 Biosynthetic Enzymes
for (1,3)-?-Glucans and (1,3;1,6) -?-Glucans from Yeasts: Biochemical Properties and Molecular Biology
3.3.4 Biochemical and Molecular
Properties of Biosynthetic Enzymes for (1,3)-?-Glucans in Embryophytes, Chlorophytes and Rhodophytes
4. BIOLOGY
4.1 Functional
Roles of (1,3)-?-Glucans and Related Polysaccharides: Prokaryotes
4.2 Biology of (1,3)-?-Glucans and Related Glucans in Protozoans
and Chromistans
4.3 Organization of Fungal, Oomycete and Lichen (1,3)-?-Glucans
4.4 RHODOPHYTES, CHLOROPHYTES AND EMBRYOPHYTES
4.4.1
Callose in Cell Division
4.4.2 Cytology of the (1-3)-?-Glucan (Callose) in Plasmodesmata and Sieve Plate Pores
4.4.3 Callose and
Its Role in Pollen and Embryo-Sac Development in Flowering Plants
4.4.4 Callose in Abiotic Stress
4.4.5 Callose in Biotic Stress
(Pathogenesis) Biology, biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Callose in Plant Defence: Callose Deoposition and turnover in plant--Pathogen
Interactions
4.5 (1->3)-?-GLUCANS IN INNATE IMMUNITY
4.5.1 Biological and Immunological Aspects of Innate Defence Mechanisms
Activated by (1,3)-?-Glucans and Related Polysaccharides in Invertebrates
4.5.2 (1,3)-?-Glucans in Innate Immunity: Mammalian
Systems
4.6 Distrubution, Fine Structure and Function of (1->3;1->4)-?-Glucans in the Grasses and Other Taxa
4.7 Evolutionary
Aspects of (1,3)- -Glucans and Related Polysaccharides
Bibliography
Indexes
Subject index
Species index
Web resources
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Hardbound, 0 pages, publication date: JUL-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-373971-1
ISBN-10: 0-12-373971-3
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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