CDA — Magnaporthe oryzae 70-15

Summary

MGG_05023 (CDA) in Magnaporthe oryzae 70-15 encodes a chitin deacetylase 1, an enzyme with chitin deacetylase activity that binds chitin and zinc. This gene is associated with appressorium formation, immune evasion, chitin breakdown, fungal-type cell wall biogenesis, polysaccharide breakdown, cell wall organization, carbohydrate metabolism, morphogenesis, and cell death. It is linked to the side of the membrane, the fungal-type cell wall, the extracellular region, and the plasmalemma. The gene has been connected to turgor pressure and to rice blast disease. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to apoplastic effector function and, in some cases, to unaffected pathogenicity.