NC2 — Neurospora crassa

Summary

NCU08192 (NC2) on Neurospora crassa chromosome 3 encodes a protein belonging to the cerato-ulmin hydrophobin family, characterized by a hydrophobin superfamily domain and annotated with toxin activity. The gene is associated with extracellular localization and has been linked to biological processes including spindle assembly checkpoint, spindle assembly, conidia formation, spore formation, chromatin modeling, and homeostasis. Studies of related genes in other species connect this gene family to reduced virulence and unaffected pathogenicity, as well as associations with fusarium head blight and head rot.