Disease relevance of Cotton Fiber

• Our study suggests that transformation through vacuum infiltration and Agrobacterium mediated transformation can be an efficient way to introduce foreign genes into the cotton pollen grain and that cotton fiber quality can be improved with the incorporation of the prokaryotic genes acsA and acsB [1].
• The same materials (polyurethane foam, polyester and cotton fibers) were also thermally decomposed in a small scale system and mice were exposed to the smoke to evaluate acute toxicity [2].

High impact information on Cotton Fiber

• Transcriptome profiling, molecular biological, and physiological studies reveal a major role for ethylene in cotton fiber cell elongation [3].
• Here, we show that promoter of a cotton fiber gene, RD22-like1 (RDL1), contains a homeodomain binding L1 box and a MYB binding motif that confer trichome-specific expression in Arabidopsis [4].
• Dimerization of cotton fiber cellulose synthase catalytic subunits occurs via oxidation of the zinc-binding domains [5].
• By using detached and permeabilized cotton fibers, we show that carbon from sucrose can be converted at high rates to both cellulose and callose [6].
• Concentration and metabolic turnover of UDP-glucose in developing cotton fibers [7].

Anatomical context of Cotton Fiber

• The cotton kinesin-like calmodulin-binding protein associates with cortical microtubules in cotton fibers [8].
• Cell wall biosynthesis: glycan containing oligomers in developing cotton fibers, cotton fabric, wood and paper [9].

Associations of Cotton Fiber with chemical compounds

• Previous studies from this laboratory have shown that particulate preparations from maturing cotton fibers catalyze the transfer of mannose from GDP-[14C]mannose into mannosylphosphorylpolyisoprenol (Forsee, W. T., and Elbein,A. D. (1973) J. Biol. Chem. 248, 2858-2867) [10].
• Characterization of mRNA for a proline-rich protein of cotton fiber [11].
• Extraction columns containing purified cotton fiber (JETUBE, Manhattan Instrument Co., Santa Monica, Calif.) are shown to give high (approximately 90-97%) extraction efficiencies for some commonly prescribed or abused drugs, notably phenobarbital, amphetamine, morphine, and methadone [12].
• Sodium hydroxide and AHP treatments were effective in increasing acid detergent fiber degradation of the Solka floc which contained, on average, 3.3 and 4.8 percentage units more acid detergent lignin and hemicellulose, respectively, than cotton fiber and Sigmacell-50.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)[13]
• The attachment to cotton fibers was made through both a single glycine and a glycine dipeptide esterified to cotton cellulose [14].

Gene context of Cotton Fiber

• Recently, the celA1 gene was cloned from cotton fiber, and this gene was identified from the rsw1 mutant of Arabidopsis as a catalytic subunit of cellulose synthase (Arioli et al. 1998) [15].
• Improvement of cotton fiber quality by transforming the acsA and acsB genes into Gossypium hirsutum L. by means of vacuum infiltration [1].
• An ATP-binding cassette transporter GhWBC1 from elongating cotton fibers [16].
• During cotton fiber development from 10 to 21 DPA, the GhKCBP protein level gradually decreases [8].
• PME extracted from tomato seeds, cotton fibers, and melon fruit showed pH optima of 6, 6, and 8, respectively [17].

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