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Expansin: Families, Mechanism & Structure and regulation
Expansins are a family of closely related nonenzymatic proteins found in the plant cell wall, with important roles in plant cell growth, fruit softening, abscission, emergence of root hairs, pollen tube invasion of the stigma and style, meristem function, and other developmental processes where cell wall loosening occurs. Expansins were originally…
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Expansin topic overview
The analysis highlights Families, Mechanism and Structure and regulation as prominent areas in the source structure around Expansin.
Related topics
39
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
45
Extracted relationships
67
Concept neighborhoods
17
Bridge connections
45
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Overview · 11 topics
Families · 8 topics
Mechanism · 8 topics
Structure and regulation · 6 topics
Allergenicity · 4 topics
Actions · 2 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How Expansin connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Expansin shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Expansin → Arabidopsis, Bacillus, Both, C-terminal, EXLA, EXLB, EXLX, EXPA, EXPB, GH, GH45-like, Globodera, II, N-terminal, Non-plant, Plants, So, Some, Strong, The Another extracted example is Expansin → C-terminal, EXL, Expansins, Generally, HDEL, HFD, His-Phe-Asp, In, KDEL, MW, N-terminal, Rumex, Sequence, The, Trp. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Expansin
Top relations
related to Families· 23
Expansin → Arabidopsis, Bacillus, Both, C-terminal, EXLA, EXLB, EXLX, EXPA, EXPB, GH, GH45-like, Globodera, II, N-terminal, Non-plant, Plants, So, Some, Strong, The
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 67 structured relationships around Expansin. Examples in this analysis include gibberellin → instance of → They are also linked to cell enlargement and cell wall changes induced by other plant hormones and Rumex palustris → instance of → semi-aquatic plants. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
gibberellin
instance of
They are also linked to cell enlargement and cell wall changes induced by other plant hormones
0.80
text
cytokinin
instance of
They are also linked to cell enlargement and cell wall changes induced by other plant hormones
0.80
text
ethylene
instance of
They are also linked to cell enlargement and cell wall changes induced by other plant hormones
0.80
text
brassinosteroids.A subset of the β-expansins are also the major group-1 allergens of grass pollens
instance of
They are also linked to cell enlargement and cell wall changes induced by other plant hormones
0.80
text
Rumex palustris
instance of
semi-aquatic plants
0.80
text
which are induced to grow rapidly by submergence
instance of
semi-aquatic plants
0.80
text
show a transcription induction by submergence
instance of
semi-aquatic plants
0.80
text
the same as in rice where hypoxia
instance of
semi-aquatic plants
0.80
text
submergence increase α-expansin mRNA levels
instance of
semi-aquatic plants
0.80
text
Expansin
related to Actions
Expansins
0.60
section
Expansin
related to Actions
This
0.60
section
Expansin
related to Actions
No
0.60
section
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Expansin bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Genes, Named and Protein. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Expansin
Genes
Named
Protein
Expansin-like
Wall
N-terminal
Network
Related
Sequence
Walls
Β-expansins
Plants
expansin
Genes
Named
Protein
Expansin-like
Wall
N-terminal
Network
Related
Sequence
Walls
Β-expansins
Plants
plant cell wall
Wall
Plant
Walls
Cellulose
Growth
Expansins
Network
Tube
Function
Microfibrils
Protein
Pollen
group 1 grass pollen allergens
Tube
Grass
Pollen
Group-1
Β-expansins
Loosening
Pollens
Function
Related
Allergens
Walls
Expansin-like
pollen tube
Tube
Grass
Loosening
Walls
Function
Related
Allergens
N-terminal
Wall
Also
Plants
Protein
allergens
Grass
Β-expansins
Group-1
Pollens
Pollen
Linked
N-terminal
Related
Also
Protein
Expansin-like
Genes
auxin
Cytokinin
Ethylene
Gibberellin
Linked
Thus
Α-expansin
Β-expansins
Plants
Genes
Expansin
Expansins
acid growth
Plant
Loosening
Tube
Function
Related
Pollen
Walls
Wall
Cellulose
Proteins
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Expansin, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Expansin with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Expansin
Nodes46
Edges45
Triples67
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.043478
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Expansin to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Families, Mechanism & Structure and regulation, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
