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To identify the structural and sequence-level origins of local flexibility in single carbohydrate polymers such as cellulose.

May 31, 2021Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesOpen Access

Identifying the origin of local flexibility in a carbohydrate polymer

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To identify the structural and sequence-level origins of local flexibility in single carbohydrate polymers such as cellulose.
Imaged individual cellulose polymer chains at nanoscale resolution to characterize single-molecule structure and conformation.
Evaluated the impact of monomer sequence (primary structure) and chain conformation (secondary structure) on chain flexibility using chemical substitutions and geometric modifications.
Cellulose chain structure and local bending flexibility were determined to be direct functions of primary sequence and secondary conformation.
Targeted chemical substitutions and secondary geometric variations enabled successful tuning of polymer chain flexibility at the single-linkage level.

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Nanoscale imaging reveals how monomer sequence and conformation govern local flexibility in cellulose chains, highlighting routes for bottom-up carbohydrate material design.

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Anggara et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa901c6a43f6789fa512ae7 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102168118

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Nanoscale imaging reveals how monomer sequence and conformation govern local flexibility in cellulose chains, highlighting routes for bottom-up carbohydrate material design.

Identifying the origin of local flexibility in a carbohydrate polymer

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