Article
DIT101 (CSD2, CAL1), a cell cycle-regulated yeast gene required for synthesis of chitin in cell walls and chitosan in spore walls.
Yeast (Chichester, England) - 1 Dec 1992
Pammer M, Briza P, Ellinger A, Schuster T, Stucka R, Feldmann H, Breitenbach M
Abstract excerpt
A mutant screen has been designed to isolate mutants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae deficient in spore wall dityrosine. As shown by electron microscopy, most of the mutant spores lacked only the outermost, dityrosine-rich layer of the spore wall. Mutant dit101, however, was additionally lacking the chitosan layer of the spore wall. Chemical measurements showed that this mutant does not synthesize chitosan during...
Topics
- Cell Cycle
- Cell Wall
- Chitin
- Chitin Synthase
- Chitosan
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Fungal
- Diiodotyrosine
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
- Genes, Fungal
- Phenotype