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Plant Physiology 149:27-37 (2009) © 2009 American Society of Plant Biologists Revolutionary Times in Our Understanding of Cell Wall Biosynthesis and Remodeling in the Grasses1Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, School of Agriculture, Food, and Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond, South Australia 5064, Australia
A major part of the daily caloric intake of human societies around the world is derived from a diverse range of foods prepared from members of the grass family, including wheat (Triticum aestivum), rice (Oryza sativa), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), the millets (Panicum miliaceum and Pennisetum americanum), barley (Hordeum vulgare), and sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum). Grasses cover perhaps 20% or more of the earth's land surface (Gaut, 2002
The grasses are noteworthy for the unusual composition of their cell walls, because walls of grasses have less pectin and xyloglucan, but more heteroxylan, than walls from other higher plants. Most significantly, walls of the grasses contain as major constituents the (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans, which are not widely distributed outside the Poaceae. The compositions of walls from selected barley organs are shown in Table I
. In many cases, constituents of cell walls in the grasses are closely linked with their widespread adoption, utility, and future potential in agricultural practice and energy production. The noncellulosic polysaccharides of walls in grasses are important components of dietary fiber, which is highly beneficial for lowering the risk of serious human health conditions, including colorectal cancer, high serum cholesterol and cardiovascular disease, obesity, and non-insulin-dependent diabetes (Braaten et al., 1994
Although there have been exciting new discoveries in the synthesis of cellulose, pectic polysaccharides, mannans, and xyloglucans in recent years, these discoveries have been made predominantly in dicotyledonous plants (Ye et al., 2006  ; Mohnen, 2008; Zabotina et al., 2008) and will not be covered here. This update, therefore, will be restricted to recent advances in our understanding of the biosynthesis of the characteristic and major wall polysaccharides of the grasses, namely the heteroxylans and (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans. So, why might we argue that we have come upon revolutionary times in our understanding of cell wall biosynthesis in the grasses? What new information has come to light in recent years? Progress in defining the genes and biological mechanisms underlying the synthesis of the major polysaccharides of walls in the grasses had remained painfully slow throughout the biochemical and molecular biological eras, mainly because the enzymes that catalyze the biosynthetic reactions are membrane proteins that usually lose activity quickly after cell disruption, before purification of the enzymes can be effected. Without even partially purified enzyme preparations, we were unable to obtain amino acid sequence information and hence could not identify the corresponding genes. However, emerging technologies of forward and reverse genetics and functional genomics have provided new tools to tackle these difficult problems and have yielded spectacular results. Thus, comparative genomics and forward genetics have been used to identify candidate genes that encode polysaccharide synthases involved in (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan biosynthesis in the grasses, while powerful bioinformatic techniques are providing important clues and candidates for the enzymes that mediate in the biosynthesis of the other key wall polysaccharide of the grasses, namely the heteroxylans. Data generated in these studies have raised ancillary but fundamental questions about the subcellular location of wall polysaccharide synthesis in the grasses. Is the Golgi apparatus the only site for the complete synthesis of matrix phase polysaccharides of the wall, including the (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans and the heteroxylans, or are there other possibilities? Functional genomics analyses have also pointed to previously unsuspected roles for hydrolytic enzymes and transglycosylases in wall polysaccharide synthesis and remodeling in the grasses. In particular, the highly abundant xyloglucan transglycosylases/hydrolases (XTHs) might act not only as modulators of xyloglucan structure but also as heterotransglycosylating enzymes that covalently link different classes of polysaccharides in the wall. There have been hints in the literature for some time that wall polysaccharides might be covalently linked, but experimental evidence that had not previously been available is now starting to build. While much of the new data have been highly informative with respect to the genes and enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of wall polysaccharides in the grasses, many of the additional questions mentioned above challenge the way in which wall polysaccharide biosynthesis and remodeling have traditionally been viewed. In this brief update, recent breakthroughs in the identification of genes that mediate wall synthesis in the grasses are discussed in the context of the complexities of chemical structures of the synthesized polysaccharides, their heterogeneity in structure and size, their physicochemical properties and functional imperatives, and their remodeling during growth and development.
To fully appreciate the complexity of biochemical and cellular processes that lead to wall biosynthesis in the grasses, it is important to understand the chemical structures of the wall polysaccharides and the changes that occur to them during plant cell growth and development as well as how these structures are tailored to the functional needs of the wall. Therefore, structural characteristics of the two major wall polysaccharides of the grasses are briefly outlined below.
The heteroxylans that are abundant in walls of the grasses can be classified into two main types, namely the arabinoxylans and the glucuronoarabinoxylans. The arabinoxylans are the major noncellulosic polysaccharides in walls of starchy endosperm and aleurone layer cells in cereal grains, whereas the glucuronoarabinoxylans are characteristically found in walls of the pericarp seed coat tissues (Fincher and Stone, 2004
Arabinoxylans of the grasses consist of a (1,4)-β-D-xylan backbone that has essentially the same conformation as a (1,4)-β-D-glucan, or cellulose. The β-D-xylopyranosyl (Xylp) units of the xylan backbone are substituted with single
The glucuronoarabinoxylans also contain substituents of D-GlcUA (GlcAp) and its 4-O-methyl ester, linked to the C(O)2 of Xylp units of the xylan backbone. A number of the Araf units in the arabinoxylans of grasses can be esterified with the hydroxycinnamic acids, ferulic acid and, to a lesser extent, its nonmethoxylated analog p-coumaric acid. The hydroxycinnamates are found at C(O)5 of Araf units that are linked to C(O)3 of the Xylp units (Fig. 1A).
Pena et al. (2007) The Araf and other substituents sterically inhibit aggregation of the (1,4)-β-D-xylan chains and lead to the formation of an extended, asymmetrical polysaccharide that has physicochemical properties suited to its function as a major matrix phase component of walls in grasses. The physicochemical properties of the arabinoxylans are similar to those of the xyloglucans and other wall polysaccharides, but they are achieved through different chemistries (Fig. 1C). In summary, the heteroxylans from walls of the grasses have diverse chemical structures that are likely to be modified in response to changing functional requirements of the wall during growth and development. It is highly probable that synthesis of the heteroxylans involves the action of multiple polysaccharide synthase and/or glycosyl transferase enzymes. Progress toward the identification of these enzymes and the genes that encode them is summarized in the following sections.
(1,3;1,4)-β-D-Glucans are unsubstituted, unbranched polysaccharides containing β-D-glucopyranosyl monomers polymerized through both (1,3)- and (1,4)-linkages. Within the grasses, barley, oat (Avena sativa), and rye (Secale cereale) grains are rich sources of (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans, while wheat, rice, and maize have lower concentrations of the polysaccharide (Fincher and Stone, 2004
The ratio of (1,4)- to (1,3)-linkages in the water-soluble (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan from barley ranges from 2.2:1 to 2.6:1. The two types of linkages are not arranged in regular, repeating sequences, but equally, they are not arranged at random. The (1,3)-β-D-glucosyl residues always occur as single residues between (1,4)-β-D-oligoglucosyl units; adjacent (1,3)-β-D-glucosyl residues are not present, at least in the barley (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan. The single (1,3)-β-D-glucosyl residues are separated by two or more (1,4)-β-D-oligoglucosyl units (Fig. 1D). The (1,4)-β-D-oligoglucosyl units generally consist of two or three adjacent (1,4)-β-D-glucosyl residues, but if one examines the sequence of these units along the polysaccharide chain, again there is no order in their arrangement of these units. Indeed, these higher level oligosaccharide units are arranged at random (Staudte et al., 1983
The ratio of cellotriosyl to cellotetraosyl units varies between species. In wheat, they range from 3.0:1 to 4.5:1, in barley from 2.9:1 to 3.4:1; in rye, the ratio is about 2.7:1, and in oats it is 1.8:1 to 2.3:1 (Fincher and Stone, 2004
The net effect of these linkage arrangements is the irregular distribution of (1,3)-β-D-glucosyl residues along what would otherwise be a regular, "cellulosic" chain. The (1,3)-β-D-glucosyl residues cause molecular "kinks" in the chain, and the irregular occurrence of these kinks means not only that the overall shape of the polysaccharide is irregular but also that the molecules will not align over extended regions. (1,3;1,4)-β-D-Glucans with these types of structure, therefore, will remain in solution even when their degree of polymerization exceeds 1,000 (Woodward et al., 1983b
In aqueous media, barley (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans adopt an extended reptate conformation with an axial ratio (length-width) of about 100 (Woodward et al., 1983b As mentioned above, the reason why such considerations of (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan structure are important here is that molecular mechanisms proposed for their synthesis must take into account the chemical and physicochemical parameters that are observed in the final form of the polysaccharide in the cell wall. The proposed mechanisms, therefore, must explain how it is that only single (1,3)-β-D-glucosyl residues are inserted between blocks of adjacent (1,4)-β-D-glucosyl residues that are mostly three or four residues in length, but may be up to 15 (1,4)-β-D-glucosyl residues long, and how it is that the cellotriosyl and cellotetraosyl units are randomly distributed along the chain.
For many years, biochemical approaches were taken in attempts to define the properties of enzymes required for arabinoxylan and (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan synthesis in walls of the grasses, and these usually involved the isolation of total microsomal fractions from homogenates of selected tissues and, in many cases, the enrichment of these for Golgi-derived membranes. Activity was subsequently measured as the incorporation by the membrane preparations of [14C]Glc from UDP-[14C]Glc into ethanol-insoluble polymeric material (Henry and Stone, 1982 ; Gibeaut and Carpita, 1993). However, the membrane-bound biosynthetic enzymes lost activity very quickly following lysis of cells, a variety of polysaccharides became labeled with the [14C]Glc, including (1,4)-, (1,3)-, and (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan, and overall incorporation of radiolabel into polysaccharide was usually low. As a result, there were no published reports of purified (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan synthases or xylan synthases from the grasses. Consequently, no amino acid sequence information could be generated using this approach, and the identities of the genes encoding the synthases, therefore, remained unknown.
However, new techniques of functional and comparative genomics have allowed novel approaches to be taken, and this is one area where significant progress in our understanding of wall polysaccharide biosynthesis in the grasses has been realized. Thus, the cellulose synthase-like CslF family of genes (Fig. 2
) was recently implicated in (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan synthesis in the grasses (Burton et al., 2006
The experimental data that implicated the CslF genes as potential participants in (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan synthesis were based on comparative genomics in rice and barley. Molecular markers flanking a major quantitative trait locus for (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan content in barley grain (Han et al., 1995 ) allowed the syntenic region to be located on the rice genome. In that syntenic region of rice, a cluster of six rice OsCslF genes was detected, and these genes became prime candidates for a role in (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan synthesis (Burton et al., 2006). The rice genes were subsequently inserted into Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), which does not have CslF genes or (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans in its walls. (1,3;1,4)-β-D-Glucans were deposited in the walls of the transgenic Arabidopsis lines (Burton et al., 2006). This suggested that the rice CslF genes were able to direct the synthesis of (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans, but it was also concluded that other genes would probably be necessary for (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans synthesis (Burton et al., 2006). Later, it was demonstrated that there are at least seven HvCslF genes in barley; these have been mapped and their transcription patterns defined (Burton et al., 2008).
It is noteworthy that although there appears to be only one wall polysaccharide that is "specific" for the grasses, namely the (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans, there are three "cereal-specific" groups of Csl genes, namely the CslFs, CslHs, and CslJs (Richmond and Somerville, 2000
If indeed the biosynthesis of (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan in grasses requires the action of multiple enzymes or involves a multienzyme complex in which an individual CslF isoenzyme represents just one component, then we are still a long way from describing the biosynthetic process in detail (Burton et al., 2008
In some tissues, the levels of (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans in walls change dramatically during growth and development. For example, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans increase to 10 mol % of walls during the elongation phase of growth in barley coleoptiles, but following the cessation of growth at about 5 d, (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan content rapidly decreases to 1 mol % (Gibeaut et al., 2005
In related work, Roulin et al. (2002)
As with the biosynthesis of (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans, (1,4)-β-D-xylan synthase activity has been detected in membrane preparations from grasses over many years (Bailey and Hassid, 1966 ; Zeng et al., 2008), but the enzymes have not yet been purified to the extent that amino acid sequence information can be obtained. The genes and enzymes that are responsible for arabinoxylan synthesis in the grasses have not yet been identified unequivocally. Based on other polysaccharide biosynthetic systems, it might be expected that an integral, type I membrane-bound polysaccharide synthase with multiple transmembrane helices would mediate the synthesis of the (1,4)-β-D-xylan backbone. A type II arabinosyl transferase with a single transmembrane helix would be expected to be involved in the addition of  -L-arabinofuranosyl substituents, along with a different type II glucuronyl transferase for the addition of the -D-glucuronopyranosyl substituents to the (1,4)-β-D-xylan backbone (Farrokhi et al., 2006).
On the basis of the chemical similarities between (1,4)-β-D-xylan and (1,4)-β-D-glucan chains, it might be predicted that a Csl enzyme or enzymes would mediate the synthesis of the (1,4)-β-D-xylan backbone. However, analyses of candidate genes from the various Csl gene subfamilies have not revealed any evidence that these genes are involved (Farrokhi et al., 2006
The presence of a reducing terminal oligosaccharide consisting of 4-β-D-Xylp-(1,4)-β-D-Xylp-(1,3)-
As with the (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans, hydrolytic enzymes could participate in the biosynthesis of arabinoxylans in the grasses. There is good evidence that the fine structure of arabinoxylans changes after the initial deposition of the polysaccharide into walls. For example, in developing barley coleoptiles, the ratio of substituted to unsubstituted 4-linked xylosyl units changes from about 4:1 to 1:1 over about 3 d (Gibeaut et al., 2005
It is generally accepted that the biosynthesis of matrix phase, noncellulosic polysaccharides of plant cell walls occurs in the Golgi apparatus and that newly synthesized polysaccharides are transported to the plasma membrane in Golgi-derived vesicles, where they are deposited into the extracellular space and ultimately incorporated into the wall (Gibeaut and Carpita, 1993 ). The exception to this notion has been (1,3)-β-D-glucan, or callose, for which biosynthesis is widely believed to occur at the plasma membrane. Wilson et al. (2006) used monoclonal antibodies against a range of wall polysaccharides to examine the spatial and temporal patterns of deposition of these polysaccharides into the wall in various barley tissues and organs and at the same time were able to observe the passage of newly synthesized polysaccharides through the cell. While they were able to detect arabinoxylans and heteromannans in the Golgi and Golgi-derived vesicles, they never detected (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan in the Golgi, in Golgi-derived vesicles, or anywhere else inside the cell. Similar results were obtained in developing barley endosperm, in elongating coleoptiles, and in suspension-cultured cells. Despite the absence of labeling in the Golgi or elsewhere in the cell, in each of these organs high concentrations of (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans were detected in the wall itself (Wilson et al., 2006; Fig. 3
). Our unpublished findings further suggest that the Csl enzymes themselves are found in Golgi but not in the plasma membrane (M. Doblin, S.M. Wilson, R.A. Burton, G.B. Fincher, and A. Bacic, unpublished data). It is important to note here that although isolated Golgi membranes, whether or not they are completely free of plasma membrane or other cellular membranes, can synthesize some (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan when provided with UDP-Glc in vitro, Wilson et al. (2006) could not find (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans in intact tissues, and we know of no experimental evidence that the polysaccharide in fact exists in Golgi in intact tissues.
To explain these apparent anomalies, Wilson et al. (2006) suggested that the (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan epitope within the Golgi or elsewhere in the barley cells might have been masked by substituents such as acetyl groups, which would prevent antibody binding. If these substituents were subsequently removed in the wall, then antibody binding would occur. One alternative explanation is that the (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans are synthesized sequentially at different sites in the cells. If, in the first phase of synthesis, (1,4)-β-D-oligoglucosides (or cellodextrins) were synthesized in the Golgi, the antibodies against the polymeric (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan would not bind to these oligosaccharides (Meikle et al., 1994). This would explain why we have been unable to detect (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans in the Golgi (Wilson et al., 2006). In the second phase, the newly synthesized (1,4)-β-D-oligoglucosides might be transported to the plasma membrane, where they could be assembled into polymeric (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans, whereafter they would be recognized by the antibodies. If this sequential assembly process indeed occurs, the population of (1,4)-β-D-oligoglucosides might be transported through the endomembrane system via a protein or lipid carrier. It is noteworthy that there have been suggestions that cellulose synthesis might occur through a lipid intermediate (Peng et al., 2002). Assembly of the oligosaccharides into the polysaccharide would require the action of a transferase enzyme. Could xyloglucan endotransglycosylases (XETs) or callose synthases perform this function? If the (1,4)-β-D-oligoglucosides synthesized in the Golgi were mainly cellotriosyl units but included longer cellodextrin units at decreasing abundance, random assembly of the (1,4)-β-D-oligoglucosides on the extracellular face of the plasma membrane would explain the fine structure of the final (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan found in the walls of grasses. It must be emphasized that while such a mode of assembly of the (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan would be consistent with all of our current data, it is also a speculative notion that has not yet been tested experimentally.
In addition to the hydrolytic modifications of arabinoxylans and other wall polysaccharides that occur after deposition of the nascent polysaccharide into the wall, another class of enzymes, known as XTHs, are widespread in higher plants and are believed to be involved in the remodeling of xyloglucans. The molecular sizes of xyloglucans can be altered after their deposition into the cell wall (Farkas et al., 2005 ), and this process is likely to be mediated by the XTHs. However, the XTHs can have XET activity or both xyloglucan endotransglycosylase and xyloglucan endohydrolase activities (Thompson and Fry, 2001). The XETs are abundant in the apoplastic space, they cleave the (1,4)-β-D-glucan backbone of xyloglucans, and they transfer the nonreducing fragment of the original substrate that remains bound to the enzyme directly onto the nonreducing terminus of another xyloglucan chain (Fig. 4
). The action of XETs could lead to disproportionation of xyloglucan molecules, such that some will have increased molecular masses while others will have decreased molecular masses (Thompson and Fry, 2001).
Recently, a more radical function was advanced for the XETs of grasses, namely that XETs could link different polysaccharides in vivo and hence influence cell wall strength, flexibility, and porosity. Strohmeier et al. (2004) first suggested that some of the XETs from monocots, which are encoded by large families of genes that were often transcribed at very high levels in both growing and senescent cells, might be active on the more abundant matrix phase polysaccharides of cell walls in barley, namely the arabinoxylans and the (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans, rather than on xyloglucans alone. Hrmova et al. (2007) subsequently showed that highly purified barley HvXET5, a member of the GH16 group of glycoside hydrolases, catalyzed the formation of covalent linkages between xyloglucans and celluloses at quite reasonable rates, and between xyloglucans and (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans at relatively low rates, at least in vitro (Hrmova et al., 2007). The HvXET5 activity proceeds via a non-Leloir type of reaction, because the energy required for the formation of the new glycosidic linkage is provided from an existing glycosidic linkage rather than from an activated sugar nucleotide donor.
The suggestion of Hrmova et al. (2007)
Remodeling of fungal cell walls during spore formation and under stress has been attributed to a group of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored transferase enzymes of family GH16, which might link different polysaccharides such as β-D-glucans and chitin in the fungal wall and thereby reinforce the walls (Gómez-Esquer et al., 2004 Molecular interactions between different classes of wall polysaccharides in higher plants have generally been assumed to be noncovalent in nature. The work summarized above provides at least circumstantial evidence that covalent linkages between different classes of wall polysaccharides might occur in plants, including the grasses, in vivo, although unequivocal evidence for this has yet to be presented.
Key challenges to our understanding of cell wall biogenesis in the grasses are presented by recent indications that while Csl genes are involved in the biosynthesis of some noncellulosic wall polysaccharides, it is not known if individual isoenzymes synthesize (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans with different fine structures, especially with respect to the length, relative abundance, and distribution of the (1,4)-β-D-oligoglucoside units along the chain. It is not known if Csl enzymes participate in heteroxylan biosynthesis, and indeed rigorous proof of function is still required for the various candidate glycosyl transferase genes and enzymes that have recently been proposed for the synthesis of the (1,4)-β-D-xylan backbone of wall arabinoxylans in grasses. Here, it has been suggested that the (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans of walls of grasses might be synthesized through a previously unknown series of cellular and enzymic events and that XET enzymes might catalyze the formation of covalent linkages between different types of wall polysaccharides in the grasses. To further investigate and develop these ideas, it will be necessary to take both biochemical and cell biological approaches to these questions. For example, it will be necessary to dissect the subcellular locations and enzymic mechanisms that are associated with (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan biosynthesis. It will also be necessary to characterize highly purified XET preparations from grasses to precisely define their substrate preferences and, at the same time, to seek chemical evidence for the existence of junction regions between covalently linked polysaccharides of different types within the cell wall itself. If such covalent linkages do exist between different polysaccharides in plant cell walls, this will not only change the way we view cell wall biology in plants in general terms but will also have important implications for wall rigidity, strength, and porosity. A thorough understanding of any covalent linkages between wall polysaccharides would also provide opportunities to genetically manipulate agroindustrial processes such as paper production, food quality and texture, malting and brewing, bioethanol production, dietary fiber, and ruminant digestibility.
Much of the work described here was undertaken by an enthusiastic group of hard-working colleagues, including in particular Rachel Burton, Monika Doblin, Andrew Harvey, Maria Hrmova, Sarah Wilson, and Tony Bacic. Received September 25, 2008; accepted November 13, 2008; published January 7, 2009.
1 This work was supported by the Australian Research Council, the Grains Research and Development Corporation, and the CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Fund.  The author responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantphysiol.org) is: Geoffrey B. Fincher (geoff.fincher{at}adelaide.edu.au). www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.108.130096 * E-mail geoff.fincher{at}adelaide.edu.au.
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