| Type: | Domain | Name: | Chitin-binding, type 1 |
| Description: | A number of plant and fungal proteins that bind N-acetylglucosamine (e.g. solanaceous lectins of tomato and potato, plant endochitinases, the wound-induced proteins: hevein, win1 and win2, and the Kluyveromyces lactiskiller toxin alpha subunit) contain this domain []. The domain may occur in one or more copies and is thought to be involved in recognition or binding of chitin subunits [, ]. In chitinases, as well as in the potato wound-induced proteins, the 43-residue domain directly follows the signal sequence and is therefore at the N terminus of the mature protein; in the killer toxin alpha subunit it is located in the central section of the protein. | Short Name: | Chitin-bd_1 |
