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Neurospora crassa 1,3-?-glucan synthase, AGS-1, is required for cell wall biosynthesis during macroconidia development.
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SUBMITTER: Fu C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4117219 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Neurospora crassa 1,3-α-glucan synthase, AGS-1, is required for cell wall biosynthesis during macroconidia development.
Microbiology (Reading, England) 20140520 Pt 8
The Neurospora crassa genome encodes two 1,3-α-glucan synthases. One of these 1,3-α-glucan synthase genes, ags-1, was shown to be required for the synthesis of 1,3-α-glucan in the aerial hyphae and macroconidia cell walls. 1,3-α-Glucan was found in the conidia cell wall, but was absent from the vegetative hyphae cell wall. Deletion of ags-1 affected conidial development. Δags-1 produced only 5 % as many conidia as the WT and most of the conidia produced by Δags-1 were not viable. The ags-1 upstr ...[more]