CDA — Fusarium culmorum CS7071

Summary

FCUL_05642.1 (CDA, CDA1) on Fusarium culmorum chromosome 2 encodes a chitin deacetylase with chitin binding and hydrolase activity acting on carbon-nitrogen bonds, and contains a NODB domain and a Glyco_hydro/deAcase_b/a-brl domain. The gene is associated with chitin and polysaccharide breakdown, carbohydrate metabolism, fungal-type cell wall biogenesis and assembly, ascospore wall assembly, immune evasion, and response to oxidative stress. Its product localises to the fungal-type cell wall, extracellular region, plasmalemma, and side of membrane. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to sporogenesis, oxidative stress, and both unaffected pathogenicity and reduced virulence, though these associations are not established for this gene.