cda — Fusarium culmorum CS7071

Summary

FCUL_09475.1 (symbol cda) on chromosome 4 of Fusarium culmorum encodes a protein with chitin deacetylase activity, hydrolase activity acting on carbon-nitrogen bonds, chitin binding, and zinc/metal binding. It is associated with chitin breakdown, polysaccharide breakdown, carbohydrate metabolism, fungal-type cell wall biogenesis, cell wall organization, and immune evasion. The protein localizes to the fungal-type cell wall, plasma membrane, extracellular region, and side of membrane. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to reduced virulence, though also to unaffected pathogenicity in some contexts.