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Label-free in situ Imaging of Lignification in Plant Cell Walls
Published on: November 1, 2010
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EPR imaging of sinapyl alcohol and its application to the study of plant cell wall lignification
Clémence Simon1, Cédric Lion, Hania Ahouari
1Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576 - UGSF - Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, 59000 Lille, France. cedric.lion@univ-lille.fr christophe.biot@univ-lille.fr.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 16, 2020
Abstract:
In bioimaging, bioorthogonal chemistry is most often used to visualize chemical reporters by fluorescence in their native environment. Herein, we show that TEMPO-based probes can be ligated to monolignol reporters by Diels-Alder chemistry in plant cell walls, paving the way for the study of lignification by EPR spectroscopy and imaging.
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