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Industrial Crops and Products, 2022
Abstract Taraxacum kok-saghyz Rodin (TKS) is a promising alternative rubber-producing plant due to the high-quality natural rubber (NR) synthesized in its root. Nevertheless, the comprehensive molecular mechanisms of NR biosynthesis in TKS roots remains segmented and elusive. In the current study, to elucidate the regulatory mechanism of NR synthesis
Yushuang Yang +6 more
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Abstract Taraxacum kok-saghyz Rodin (TKS) is a promising alternative rubber-producing plant due to the high-quality natural rubber (NR) synthesized in its root. Nevertheless, the comprehensive molecular mechanisms of NR biosynthesis in TKS roots remains segmented and elusive. In the current study, to elucidate the regulatory mechanism of NR synthesis
Yushuang Yang +6 more
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Natural rubber biosynthesis in plants: rubber transferase.
Methods in enzymology, 2013Rubber biosynthesis in plants is a fascinating biochemical system, which evolved at the dawn of the dicotyledoneae and is present in at least four of the dictolydonous superorders. Rubber biosynthesis is catalyzed by a membrane complex in a monolayer membrane envelope, requires two distinct substrates and a divalent cation cofactor, and produces a high-
Katrina, Cornish, Wenshuang, Xie
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CRISPR-Cas9 enabled molecular genetic studies of natural rubber biosynthesis in lettuce
2022Natural rubber (NR) is an industrially essential biopolymer due to its irreplicable properties. To date the only necessary components identified for NR biosynthesis are two membrane-bound proteins, cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) and CPT binding protein (CBP) that form a complex in which CPT catalyzes the addition of isopentyl pyrophosphate (IPP) subunits ...
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Rubber Chemistry and Technology, 2014
ABSTRACT The superior properties of natural rubber (cis-1,4-polyisoprene [NR]) are a function of its structure and composition, properties that still remain a mystery and that are irreplaceable by any synthetic rubber. NR from guayule (Parthenium argentatum) has been gaining special interest for its hypoallergenic properties while maintaining ...
Cheng Ching K. Chiang +6 more
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ABSTRACT The superior properties of natural rubber (cis-1,4-polyisoprene [NR]) are a function of its structure and composition, properties that still remain a mystery and that are irreplaceable by any synthetic rubber. NR from guayule (Parthenium argentatum) has been gaining special interest for its hypoallergenic properties while maintaining ...
Cheng Ching K. Chiang +6 more
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CHAPTER 2. Natural Rubber: Biosynthesis, Structure, Properties and Application
2013Rubber from Hevea brasiliensis, known as natural rubber (NR), contains rubber hydrocarbon and ca. 6% of non-rubber components. The biosynthesis of the NR latex particles takes place in the laticifers of the Hevea rubber tree. Rubber molecule is synthesized by the addition of isopentenyl diphosphate into farnesyl diphosphate, the initiating molecule ...
Jitladda Tangpakdee Sakdapipanich +1 more
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Rubber Chemistry and Technology, 2011
Abstract Monitoring the growth of in vitro natural rubber was accomplished by high resolution size exclusion chromatography, SEC. Washed rubber particles isolated from H. brasiliensis latex, containing the rubber transferase enzyme, were used to catalyze the polymerization of synthetic isopentenyl pyrophosphate monomer in the presence of ...
Chengching K. Chiang +3 more
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Abstract Monitoring the growth of in vitro natural rubber was accomplished by high resolution size exclusion chromatography, SEC. Washed rubber particles isolated from H. brasiliensis latex, containing the rubber transferase enzyme, were used to catalyze the polymerization of synthetic isopentenyl pyrophosphate monomer in the presence of ...
Chengching K. Chiang +3 more
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