Cortical microtubules microfibrils

Baskin, T. I. 2001. On the alignment of cellulose microfibrils by cortical microtubules a review and a model. Protoplasma 215, 150-171... 

Hasezawa, S. and Nozaki, H. 1999. Role of cortical microtubules in the orientation of cellulose microfibril deposition in higher-plant cells. Protoplasma 209, 98-104... 

To examine the interaction between cortical microtubules and microfibrils more directly, we prepared an isolated plasma membrane sheet with cortical miaotubules from tobbaco cells and demonstrated that p-glucan s)mthases penetrating through the membrane move in the fluid... 

Fisher D.D. and Cyr R.X (1998). Extending the microtubule/microfibril paradigm - Cellulose synthesis is required for normal cortical microtubule alignment in elongating cells. Plant Physiol. 116 1043-1051. 

Cellulose microfibrils are deposited by cellulose synthases into the cell wall in often strikingly regular patterns. Here we discuss several mechanisms that have been put forward to explain the alignment of cellulose microfibrils that gives rise to ordered cell wall textures the hypothesis that cortical microtubules align cellulose microfibrils during their deposition, the liquid crystal hypothesis in which cellulose microfibrils self-assemble into textures after their deposition, the templated incorporation hypothesis, and the geometrical theory in which the density of active cellulose synthase complexes inside the plasma membrane may dictate the architecture of the cell wall. 

Baskin T.I., Meekes H.T.H.M., Liang B.M., and Sharp R.E. 1999. Regulation of growth anisotropy in well-watered and water-stressed maize roots. II. Role of cortical microtubules and cellulose microfibrils. Plant Physiol 119 681-692. 

Baskin T.I., Beemster G.T.S., Judy-March J.E., and Marga F. 2004. Disorganization of cortical microtubules stimulates tangential expansion and reduces the uniformity of cellulose microfibril alignment among cells in the root of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 135 2279-2290. 

Emons A.M.C. and Wolter-Arts A.M.C. 1983. Cortical microtubules and microfibril deposition in the cell wall of root hairs of Equisetum hyemale. Protoplasma 117 68-81. 

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