MYCGR3G101655 — Zymoseptoria tritici

Summary

MYCGR3G101655 (BGS1) on Zymoseptoria tritici chromosome 11 encodes a protein with branched 1,3-beta-D-glucan synthase, callose synthase, and alpha-1,3-glucan synthase activities. The gene is associated with fungal-type cell wall polysaccharide biosynthesis, primary and secondary cell septum biogenesis, cleavage furrow formation, midbody abscission, mitotic division septum assembly, ascospore wall 1,3-beta-glucan anabolism, spore wall assembly, autolysis, conjugation with cellular fusion, mitotic spindle breakdown, and response to micafungin. Its product localizes to the 1,3-beta-glucan synthase complex, primary cell septum, spore wall, cleavage furrow, growing cell tips, cell cortex of growing cell tips, mitotic actomyosin contractile ring, and perinuclear ER. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to beta-glucan content, polysaccharide content, sporogenesis, turgor pressure, and oxidative stress.