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Leal-Morales, C.A.; Gay, L.; Fevre, M.; Bartnicki-Garcia, S.
The properties and localization of Saprolegnia monoica chitin synthase differ from those of other fungi (1997), Microbiology, 143, 2473-2483.

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Activating Compound

Activating Compound	Comment	Organism	Structure
Digitonin	stimulates, both membrane-bound and dissociated chitin synthase show little activity in the absence of digitonin	Saprolegnia monoica

Localization

Localization	Comment	Organism	GeneOntology No.	Textmining
additional information	the enzyme sediments with membranous components of high specific gravity	Saprolegnia monoica	-	-

Organism

Organism	UniProt	Comment	Textmining
Saprolegnia monoica	-	-	-

Purification (Commentary)

Purification (Comment)	Organism
-	Saprolegnia monoica

Substrates and Products (Substrate)

Substrates	Comment Substrates	Organism	Products	Comment (Products)	Rev.	Reac.
UDP-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine + [1,4-(N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminyl)]n	-	Saprolegnia monoica	UDP + [1,4-(N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminyl)]n+1	-	?

Subunits

Subunits	Comment	Organism
More	SDS-PAGE results in 19 bands from 27000 Da to 125000 Da. Five of them show intensities that parallele the chitin synthase activity: 83000 Da, 72000 Da, 67000 Da, 36000 Da and 31000 Da	Saprolegnia monoica

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