TY  - JOUR
AU  - Barthel, Lars
AU  - Cairns, Timothy
AU  - Duda, Sven
AU  - Müller, Henri
AU  - Dobbert, Birgit
AU  - Jung, Sascha
AU  - Briesen, Heiko
AU  - Meyer, Vera
TI  - Breaking down barriers: comprehensive functional analysis of the Aspergillus niger chitin synthase repertoire
JO  - Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
SN  - 2054-3085
CY  - London
PB  - BioMed Central
M1  - PUBDB-2025-00279
SP  - 3
PY  - 2024
AB  - Members of the fungal kingdom are heterotrophic eukaryotes encased in a chitin containing cell wall. This polymer is vital for cell wall stiffness and, ultimately, cell shape. Most fungal genomes contain numerous putative chitin synthase encoding genes. However, systematic functional analysis of the full chitin synthase catalogue in a given species is rare. This greatly limits fundamental understanding and potential applications of manipulating chitin synthesis across the fungal kingdom. 
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:38468360
DO  - DOI:10.1186/s40694-024-00172-7
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/622241
ER  -