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Chitin Research Revisited [PDF]

Marine Drugs, 2010
Two centuries after the discovery of chitin, it is widely accepted that this biopolymer is an important biomaterial in many aspects. Numerous studies on chitin have focused on its biomedical applications.
Feisal Khoushab, Montarop Yamabhai
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STUDY ADSORPTION DESORPTION OF MANGANESE(II) USING IMPREGNATED CHITIN-CELLULOSE AS ADSORBENT [PDF]

International Journal of Science and Engineering, 2015
- Study adsorption desorption of manganese(II) using impregnated chitin-cellulose as adsorbent has been carried out. Chitin was extracted from snail shell and cellulose isolated from rice straw.
Aldes Lesbani, Ema Veronika Turnip, Risfidian Mohadi, Nurlisa Hidayati   +3 more
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Nanomorphology of the blue iridescent wings of a giant tropical wasp, "Megascolia procer javanensis" (Hymenoptera) [PDF]

Phys. Rev. E 78, 051902 (2008), 2007
The wings of the giant wasp "Megascolia Procer Javanensis" are opaque and iridescent. The origin of the blue-green iridescence is studied in detail, using reflection spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and physical modelling. It is shown that the structure responsible for the iridescence is a single homogeneous transparent chitin layer covering ...
Rassart, Marie, Sarrazin, Michael, Vigneron, Jean Pol, Welch, Victoria   +3 more
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The cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Sepiidae, Cephalopoda) constructs cuttlebone from a liquid-crystal precursor [PDF]

Scientific Reports 5, 11513, 2015, 2015
Cuttlebone, the sophisticated buoyancy device of cuttlefish, is made of extensive superposed chambers that have a complex internal arrangement of calcified pillars and organic membranes. It has not been clear how this structure is assembled. We find that the membranes result from a myriad of minor membranes initially filling the whole chamber, made of ...
A Appellöff, AC Neville, AC Neville, C Sanchez, EA Zimmermann, EJ Denton, G Falini, H Mutvei, H Mutvei, J Blackwell, J Nase, J Reitner, JD Birchall, JHE Cartwright, JHE Cartwright, JHE Cartwright, JHE Cartwright, K Bandel, K Tanabe, LA Doguzhaeva, MJ Vendrasco, N Okafor, PE Hare, PG Saffman, RE Young, RE Young, RH Hackman, RH Hackman, S Hunt, S Weiner, S Weiner, UGK Wegst, Y Bouligand, Y Bouligand, Y Bouligand, Y Dauphin, Y Levi-Kalisman   +36 more
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Growth on Chitin Impacts the Transcriptome and Metabolite Profiles of Antibiotic-Producing Vibrio coralliilyticus S2052 and Photobacterium galatheae S2753 [PDF]

mSystems, 2017
Members of the Vibrionaceae family are often associated with chitin-containing organisms, and they are thought to play a major role in chitin degradation.
Sonia Giubergia, Christopher Phippen, Kristian Fog Nielsen, Lone Gram   +3 more
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A Simplified Method for Evaluating Chitin-Binding Activity Applied to YKL-40 (HC-gp39, CHI3L1) and Chitotriosidase [PDF]

Molecules
YKL-40 is structurally similar to chitotriosidase (CHIT1), an active chitinase, but it lacks chitin-degrading activity while retaining chitin-binding capability.
Keita Suzuki, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ami Tanaka, Miwa Tanaka, Kairi Takase, Hiromu Takei, Tomoki Kanaizumi, Kazuaki Okawa, Peter O. Bauer, Fumitaka Oyama   +9 more
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Selection of marine bacterial consortia efficient at degrading chitin leads to the discovery of new potential chitin degraders [PDF]

Microbiology Spectrum
Chitin degradation is a keystone process in the oceans, mediated by marine microorganisms with the help of several enzymes, mostly chitinases. Sediment, seawater, and filter-feeding marine invertebrates, such as sponges, are known to harbor chitin ...
Laurence Meunier, Rodrigo Costa, Tina Keller-Costa, David Cannella, Etienne Dechamps, Isabelle F. George   +5 more
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Investigation of 9 True Weevil (Curculionidae Latreille, 1802) Species for Chitin Extraction [PDF]

Biomimetics
Chitin, the second most abundant biopolymer after cellulose, is an important resource for biosourced materials. The global demand for chitin is rapidly increasing, however, the majority of industrial chitin is sourced from crustacean shells, which may be
Zhenying Mei, Luc Vincent, Caroline R. Szczepanski, René-Paul Godeau, Pavel Kuzhir, Guilhem Godeau   +5 more
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Can TM system form an unconditional basis for Banach spaces? [PDF]

arXiv
The research on the algorithm of analytic signal has received much attention for a long time. Takenaka-Malmquist (TM) system was introduced to consider analytic functions in 1925. If TM system satisfies hyperbolic inseparability condition, then it is an orthogonal basis. It can form unconditional basis for Hilbert space $\mathbb{H}^{2}(D)$ and Schauder
Hon, Chitin, Qian, Tao, Yang, Haibo, Yang, Qixiang   +3 more
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Daily fluctuations in COVID-19 infection rates under Tokyo’s epidemic prevention measures – new evidence from adaptive Fourier decomposition

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed widespread infections and variants. Particularly, Tokyo faced the challenge of seven waves of COVID-19, during which government interventions played a pivotal role.
Guibin Lu, Zifeng Yang, Zifeng Yang, Zifeng Yang, Zifeng Yang, Wei Qu, Wei Qu, Tao Qian, Zige Liu, Wei He, Zhijie Lin, Chitin Hon, Chitin Hon, Chitin Hon, Chitin Hon   +14 more
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