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A fiber-like nanostructure about 5 nm wide and several micrometers long was isolated from ethanol-bleached cherry devoid of anthocyanins.
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e0“A different type of nanostructure resembling fibers, ∼5 nm in width, and several micrometers in length, was also isolated from ethanol-bleached cherry devoid of anthocyanins”
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Krishna Raj Tiwari; Renu Chandrasekaran; Priya Padmanabhan; et al. Plant Nano Biology 2026. doi:10.1016/j.plana.2026.100292
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- Intervention effect Homogenization of sour cherry fruit in aqueous or alcoholic medium resulted in spontaneous assembly of cell wall components into spherical nanoparticles.
- Observation The sour cherry nanoparticles were detergent resistant, uniform spherical structures 25 to 50 nm in size in solution.
- Intervention effect Polygalacturonase treatment completely disrupted the sour cherry nanoparticles, indicating pectin among their constituent molecules.
- Intervention effect Treatment with cellulase and trypsin removed the outer fibrillar structures of the sour cherry nanoparticles, exposing an inner core.
- Observation Both nanoparticles and nanofibers showed strong affinity to anti-arabinogalactan-protein complexes.
- Observation Both nanoparticles and nanofibers showed a far lower affinity to anti-extensin.
- Observation The nanoparticles did not react with anti-homogalacturonan.
- Observation The nanofibers showed a very strong reaction with anti-homogalacturonan.
- Observation FT-IR spectra of the nanoparticles and nanofibers showed absorption peaks characteristic of proteins and pectin.