growth on agro industrial wastes can be used as inducer of cutinase production, e.g. peels of multi green colored watermelon

increased enzyme production in strain WSH03-11 by induction with cutin, cutin hydrolysis monomers, and some lipids, e.g. tomato peel

increased enzyme production in wild-type strain by induction with cutin, cutin hydrolysis monomers, and some lipids, e.g. apple cutin

mutants carrying a DELTActf1 loss-of-function allele grown on inducing substrates fail to activate extracellular cutinolytic activity and expression of the cut1 gene, encoding a putative cutinase

the zinc finger transcription factor Ctf1 from Fusarium oxysporum mediates efficient transcriptional activation of cut1 and lip1 on fatty acid substrates, but not on glucose. The Ctf1 transcription factor, a functional orthologue of CTF1alpha, controls expression of cutinase genes and virulence. Strains harbouring a ctf1C allele in which the ctf1 coding region is fused to the strong constitutive Aspergillus nidulans gpdA promoter show increased induction of cutinase activity and gene expression. Higher levels of cut1 transcript in mycelia of the wild-type grown on apple cutin than in those grown on glucose. Activation of cut1 by apple cutin is even more pronounced in the ctf1C strain than in the wild-type. Low expression of cut1 in roots 10 days after inoculation of tomato plants