Carbohydrate-active enzymes from the zygomycete fungus Rhizopus oryzae: a highly specialized approach to carbohydrate degradation depicted at genome level

Table 3 Number of putative enzyme models related to fungal cell wall modification and recycling in different fungal genomes.

species	chitin	chitosan	α-1,3-glucan	β-1,3-glucan	β-1,6-glucan
Rhizopus oryzae	21	43	5	27	7
Ustilago maydis	8	20	4	43	14
Postia placenta	31	43	15	98	42
Phanerochaete chrysosporium	19	34	10	59	21
Laccaria bicolor	16	33	10	69	30
Schizophyllum commune	20	29	15	72	21
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	2	7	2	21	5
Hypocrea jecorina	26	20	9	60	13
Nectria haematococca	34	32	15	94	18
Gibberella zeae	24	27	9	73	15
Podospora anserina	22	27	9	57	15
Chaetomium globosum	19	27	10	59	12
Magnaporthe grisea	20	30	9	72	14
Aspergillus fumigatus	25	28	15	65	14
Aspergillus oryzae	22	24	19	66	13

See note in Table 2 on the confidence of the assignments to functional categories. Numbers of P. placenta were from a dikaryotic strain (possibly 2 alleles per gene).

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