“…However, upon mild sonication (to reduce clumps for imaging), neither mutant showed a multiple bud phenotype, suggesting no apparent defect in cytokinesis (Figures S5E and S5F), although it remains possible that a weak defect in cell separation in the mutant cells was abolished by sonication. Both mutants exhibited the stereotypical phenotypes for cells with defective cell walls, including broad-neck morphology, sensitivity to CW, enhanced chitin deposition into the cell wall, and lethality suppression by the osmotic support of 1 M sorbitol (Figures S5E and S5G-S5I) (Kubo, et al, 2019;Levin, 2011;Ram and Klis, 2006). These data demonstrate that, in contrast to its fission yeast ortholog Sbg1, Kre6 is not involved in the AMR and PS-mediated membrane closure, and that its primary function is likely to be in the cell wall biogenesis or maturation.…”