What is the biological role of expansins in fungi?
['interactions with alpha-expansin in cell wall extension and polysaccharide degradation', 'cell wall swelling may not be a significant event during the action of expansin and hydrolases', 'To evaluate a putative implication of three newly identified expansin/family 45 endoglucanase-like (EEL) proteins in lignocellulose degradation', 'Our results show that EglD is a conidial cell wall localized expansin-like protein, which could be involved in cell wall remodeling during germination', 'Swollenin, a protein first characterized in the saprophytic fungus Trichoderma reesei, contains an N-terminal carbohydrate-binding module family 1 domain (CBD) with cellulose-binding function and a C-terminal expansin-like domain', 'alpha-Expansins are extracellular proteins that increase plant cell-wall extensibility', 'these wall-loosening proteins are directly involved in the accommodation of the fungus by infected cortical cells']
['Expansins are extracellular proteins that increase plant cell-wall extensibility. These wall-loosening proteins are involved in cell wall extension and polysaccharide degradation. In fungi expansins and expansin-like proteins have been found to localize in the conidial cell wall and are probably involved in cell wall remodeling during germination.']
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