CDA — Fusarium culmorum CS7071

Summary

FCUL_09578.1, symbol CDA and also known as CDA1 or CDA2 on chromosome 4 of Fusarium culmorum, encodes a chitin deacetylase with chitin-binding, zinc-binding and hydrolase activity acting on carbon-nitrogen bonds. The gene is associated with chitin and polysaccharide breakdown, carbohydrate metabolism, fungal-type cell wall biogenesis and assembly, ascospore wall assembly, immune evasion, cell wall organization, and response to oxidative stress. Its product localizes to the vacuole, side of membrane, fungal-type cell wall, extracellular region, and plasmalemma. Related genes in other species are linked to sporogenesis and oxidative stress, with conflicting evidence on pathogenicity—some relatives show reduced virulence while others are unaffected.