Welcome to the Group of Hans Merzendorfer at the Department of Biology/Chemistry

- Animal Physiology -

University of Osnabrück, Department Biology/Chemistry, Animal Physiology, D-49069 Osnabrück, Germany

Molecular Physiology – Chitin synthesis

Midgut epithelium of the tobacco hornworm Baker’s Yeast

(Manduca sexta) (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)

(Left: chitin synthase in brush border microvilli detected with antibodies; middle: red, chitin detected with a recombinant chitin

binding domain (CBD); green, chitin synthase detected with antibodies; right: blue, chitin detected with Calcofluor White)