CDA — Fusarium culmorum CS7071

Summary

FCUL_06278.1 (CDA, CDA1) on chromosome 2 of Fusarium culmorum encodes a chitin deacetylase, an enzyme with chitin deacetylase activity, hydrolase activity acting on carbon-nitrogen bonds, chitin binding, and zinc/metal binding. The gene is associated with chitin breakdown, polysaccharide breakdown, carbohydrate metabolism, fungal-type cell wall biogenesis, cell wall assembly and organization, ascospore wall assembly, immune evasion, and response to oxidative stress. The encoded product localizes to the vacuole, side of membrane, fungal-type cell wall, extracellular region, and plasmalemma. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to sporogenesis, oxidative stress, and both unaffected and reduced pathogenicity.