Jorge Verdín

Are hyaluronic acid synthases widely encoded in fungi?

Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a biologically versatile polysaccharide synthesized by vertebrates and several microbial pathogens. To date, Cryptococcus neoformans CPS1p is the only reported bona fide hyaluronic acid synthase (HAS) in fungi, which is functionally related to bacterial HA...