How do expansins control plant growth? A model for cell wall loosening via defect migration in cellulose microfibrils

Selaginella moellendorffii has a reduced and highly conserved expansin superfamily with genes more closely related to angiosperms than to bryophytes

(2013) Robert E Carey et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Crystalline and amorphous cellulose in the secondary walls of Arabidopsis

(2012) Katia Ruel et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Structural basis for entropy-driven cellulose binding by a type-A cellulose-binding module (CBM) and bacterial expansin

(2012) N. Georgelis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structure and Interactions of Plant Cell-Wall Polysaccharides by Two- and Three-Dimensional Magic-Angle-Spinning Solid-State NMR

(2011) Marilú Dick-Pérez et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Structure-Function Analysis of the Bacterial Expansin EXLX1

(2011) Nikolaos Georgelis et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Matrix solubilization and cell wall weakening by β-expansin (group-1 allergen) from maize pollen

(2011) Akira Tabuchi et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Localization of Crystalline Allomorphs in Cellulose Microfibril

(2009) Yoshiki Horikawa et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Force Pulling of Single Cellulose Chains at the Crystalline Cellulose−Liquid Interface: A Molecular Dynamics Study

(2009) Malin Bergenstråhle et al.   LANGMUIR

Crystal structure and activity of Bacillus subtilis YoaJ (EXLX1), a bacterial expansin that promotes root colonization

(2008) F. Kerff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA