Cellulose is a polysaccharide of glucose units whose chains form strong assemblies in plant cell walls. It illustrates a structural role for carbohydrates. See Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell: the plant cell wall.
A cellulose microfibril is an organized assembly of cellulose chains. Surface accessibility and chain packing help determine which glycosidic bonds enzymes can attack.
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