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Consolidation of linear terminal complexes. The correlation between linear consolidation of terminal complexes and microfibril width does not appear to be as consistent for linear terminal complexes, although this correlation... 

Thus, linear terminal complex consolidation appears to be a manifestation of the stage of cell wall development rather than a significant factor in the determination of microfibril dimensions. 

Kimura S., Chen H.P., Saxena I.M., Brown, Jr. R.M., and Itoh T. 2001a. Localization of c-di-GMP-binding protein with the linear terminal complexes of Acetobacter xylinum. J Bacteriol 183(19) 5668-74. 

The enzymes have several putative transmembrane domains (TMD). This is consistent with previous microscopic and biochemical data indicating that cellulose synthase is an integral membrane protein and that cellulose biosynthesis occurs at the plasma membrane (Mueller and Brown, Jr. 1980 Ross et al. 1991 Brown, Jr. et al. 1996 Delmer 1999). Visible by electron microscopy, the enzymes form large linear terminal complexes in the plasma membrane of bacteria and many algae whereas they form hexagonal rosette structures in higher plants and some algae (Mueller and Brown, Jr. 1980 Ross et al. 1991 Kimura et al. 1999). Delmer (1999) has speculated that the transmembrane domains may create a... 

Kudlicka K., Wardrop A., Itoh T, and Brown, Jr. R.M., 1987. Further evidence from sectioned material in support of the existence of a linear terminal complex in cellulose synthesis. Protoplasma 136 96-103. 

Quader H. 1991. Role of linear terminal complexes in cellulose synthesis. In Haigler C.H. and Weimer P.J. (eds.) Biosynthesis and biodegradation of cellulose. Marcel Dekker, New York, pp. 51-69. 

Tsekos 1., Okuda K., and Brown, Jr. R.M. 1996. The formation and development of cellulose-synthesizing linear terminal complexes (TCs) in the plasma membrane of the marine red alga Erythrocladia suhintegra Rosenv. Protoplasma 193 33 5. 

It is well known that the rosette and linear terminal complexes (TCs) can be observed by the freeze-fracture replication technique. The structures revealed by this technique are known as putative cellulose-synthesizing TCs. Kimura et al. (1999) demonstrated that TCs in vascular plants contain cellulose synthases using a novel technique of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-solubilized freeze fracture replica labeling (SDS-FRL). The localization of the cellulose synthase to the TC was accomplished almost 40 years after the hypothesis of Roelofsen (1958) in which he stated that enzyme complexes could be involved in cellulose biosynthesis. It has been more than 30 years since the discovery of the first TC by Brown, Jr. and Montezinos (1976) and in particular, 26 years after the discovery of rosette TCs in plants by Mueller and Brown, Jr. (1980). 

Tsekos I. and Reiss H.-D. 1992. Occurrence of the putative microfibril-synthesizing complexes (linear terminal complexes) in the plasma membrane of the epiphytic marine alga Erythrodadia subintegra Rosenv. Protoplasma 169 57-67. 

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