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Luis Morales-Quintana
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Alpha-expansins: more than three decades of wall creep and loosening in fruits
Expansins are proteins without catalytic activity, but able to break hydrogen bonds between cell wall polysaccharides hemicellulose and cellulose. This proteins were reported for the first time in 1992, descri...
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Evolution of the fruit ripening and development of the strawberry ‘Aroma’; through transcriptional, physiological and chemicals analysis
In the last three decades, the demand for Fragaria x ananassa has increased by approximately 260%, due to its organoleptic qualities such as aroma, texture, and flavor, as well as its high content of nutrients an...
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α-Mannosidase and β-d-N-acetylhexosaminidase outside the wall: partner exoglycosidases involved in fruit ripening process
Cell wall is a strong and complex net whose function is to provide turgor, pathogens attack protection and to give structural support to the cell. In growing and expanding cells, the cell wall of fruits is cha...
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Characterization of cell wall modification through thermogravimetric analysis during ripening of Chilean strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis) fruit
Fragaria chiloensis (Chilean strawberry) fruit has been described as a fruit with excellent organoleptic properties, highlighting its flavor and aroma. However, the fruit has a high softening rate. Fruit softenin...
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Changes in the cell wall components produced by exogenous abscisic acid treatment in strawberry fruit
Fruit development and ripening are controlled by multiple plant hormones; for strawberries, recent evidence supports the role of abscisic acid (ABA) as a promoter of fruit ripening. Fruit softening during ripe...
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Open AccessA new functional JAZ degron sequence in strawberry JAZ1 revealed by structural and interaction studies on the COI1–JA-Ile/COR–JAZs complexes
The phytohormone jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile) regulates fundamental plant processes as developmental and defense responses. JA-Ile mediates the interaction between the F-box protein COI1 (part of the SCFCOI1 E3 ...
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PrMATE1 Is Differentially Expressed in Radiata Pine Exposed to Inclination and the Deduced Protein Displays High Affinity to Proanthocyanidin Substrates by a Computational Approach
The response to inclination in plants is an attractive and extensively studied biological process. The most commonly held theory proposes a differential growth in stem tissue due to unequal auxin redistributio...
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Study of the cell wall components produced during different ripening stages through thermogravimetric analysis
Fruit softening during ripening is mainly a consequence of the solubilization and depolymerization of cell wall components mediated by the action of a complex set of enzymes and proteins. In the present work, ...
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Understanding the roles of Lys33 and Arg45 in the binding-site stability of LjLTP10, an LTP related to drought stress in Lotus japonicus
In Lotus japonicus, as in most plants, long-chain fatty acids are important components of cuticular wax, one of the principal functions of which is to act as a barrier to water loss in response to drought stress....
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Computational study enlightens the structural role of the alcohol acyltransferase DFGWG motif
Alcohol acyltransferases (AAT) catalyze the esterification reaction of alcohols and acyl-CoA into esters in fruits and flowers. Despite the high divergence between AAT enzymes, two important and conserved moti...
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In-silico analysis of the structure and binding site features of an α-expansin protein from mountain papaya fruit (VpEXPA2), through molecular modeling, docking, and dynamics simulation studies
Fruit softening is associated to cell wall modifications produced by a set of hydrolytic enzymes and proteins. Expansins are proteins with no catalytic activity, which have been associated with several process...
