Other names in common use include chitin-UDP N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase, chitin-uridine diphosphate acetylglucosaminyltransferase, chitin synthetase, and trans-N-acetylglucosaminosylase.
Chitin Synthase is manufactured in the rough endoplasmic reticulum of fungi as the inactive form, zymogen.
Chitosomes bring the zymogen to the hyphal tip of a mold or yeast cell membrane.
Chitin synthase is placed into the interior side of the cell membrane and then activated.
[citation needed] Benzoylurea as well as other insecticides act as insect growth regulators by inhibiting this enzyme and thus preventing the formation of chitin.