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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

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

Localization

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

EC Number Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
2.4.1.16 Saprolegnia monoica
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Purification (Commentary)

EC Number Purification (Comment) Organism
2.4.1.16
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 Saprolegnia monoica

Substrates and Products (Substrate)

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

EC Number Subunits Comment Organism
2.4.1.16 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