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IN spite of much investigation the problem of the molecular mechanism of cellulose synthesis remains unsolved1. Hexose phosphates2, sugar nucleotides3–6 and a glycolipid7–9 have been suggested as the precursor of cellulose. Implicit in all these investigations is the supposition that a single substrate suffices for the synthesis. We describe here some preliminary observations which seem to throw new light on the possible mechanism.
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MANLEY, R., JONKER, J., COOPER, D. et al. Initiation of Cellulose Biosynthesis. Nature New Biology 229, 88–89 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio229088a0
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