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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2021

Cell wall composition determines handedness reversal in helicoidal cellulose architectures of Pollia condensata fruits

Tom Gregory
  • Fonction : Auteur
Lisa M Steiner
Alexander Kovalev
Rebecca H N Karanja
  • Fonction : Auteur
Paula J Rudall
  • Fonction : Auteur
Beverley J Glover
Stanislav N Gorb
Silvia Vignolini

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Significance Helicoidal architectures are widespread in nature; several species adopt this structure to produce brilliant colorations. Such chiral architectures are usually left-handed in plants, with the only exception found in the cell walls of epicarp cells of Pollia condensata , where both handednesses are observed. Here, we aim to understand the origin of handednesses by analyzing optical and mechanical responses of single cells. Surprisingly, we discover that left-handed and right-handed cells show different distributions of spectra and elasticity. We verified by using finite element analysis simulation that the elasticity of helicoids is sensitive to the ratio of cellulose/cell wall matrix. Our findings reveal that cell wall composition affects the helicoidal architectures, suggesting that chemical composition plays a role in morphogenesis of the chirality reversal.
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hal-03746915 , version 1 (06-08-2022)

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Yin Chang, Rox Middleton, Yu Ogawa, Tom Gregory, Lisa M Steiner, et al.. Cell wall composition determines handedness reversal in helicoidal cellulose architectures of Pollia condensata fruits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021, 118 (51), ⟨10.1073/pnas.2111723118⟩. ⟨hal-03746915⟩
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