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SUBMITTER: Kuroki M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5575296 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kuroki Misa M Okauchi Kana K Yoshida Sho S Ohno Yuko Y Murata Sayaka S Nakajima Yuichi Y Nozaka Akihito A Tanaka Nobukiyo N Nakajima Masahiro M Taguchi Hayao H Saitoh Ken-Ichiro KI Teraoka Tohru T Narukawa Megumi M Kamakura Takashi T
Scientific reports 20170829 1
The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae differentiates a specialized infection structure called an appressorium to invade rice cells. In this report, we show that CBP1, which encodes a chitin-deacetylase, is involved in the induction phase of appressorium differentiation. We demonstrate that the enzymatic activity of Cbp1 is critical for appressorium formation. M. oryzae has six CDA homologues in addition to Cbp1, but none of these are indispensable for appressorium formation. We observed chito ...[more]