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How Does a Delicate Insect Wing Resist Damage? Chitin Orientation Is Adapted to the Mechanical Demands at the Nanoscale

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Nanoscale chitin fiber orientations in the insect wing play a critical role in adapting to complex mechanical demands. These findings reveal two distinct and functionally adaptive chitin orientation patterns in the membranes that vary regionally, optimizing mechanical resilience and deformation control.
Chuchu Li, Jiliang Liu, Manfred Burghammer, Chao Wan, Stanislav N. Gorb, Clemens F. Schaber   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applications and interest of chitin, chitosan and their derivatives in enology

OENO One, 2005
This review treats of the possible use interest of chitin, chitosan and derivatives in enology. Chitosan and chitin are polysaccharide polymers containing more than 5 000 glucosamine and acetylglucosamine units, respectively, and their molecular weights ...
Aurélie Bornet, Pierre-Louis Teissedre
doaj   +1 more source

Nanofibrillation is an Effective Method to Produce Chitin Derivatives for Induction of Plant Responses in Soybean

Plants, 2020
Chitin, an N-acetylglucosamine polymer, is well-known to have unique biological functions, such as growth promotion and disease resistance induction in plants.
Hironori Kaminaka, Chihiro Miura, Yukiko Isowa, Takaya Tominaga, Mamu Gonnami, Mayumi Egusa, Shinsuke Ifuku   +6 more
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The Cotton Wall-Associated Kinase GhWAK7A Mediates Responses to Fungal Wilt Pathogens by Complexing with the Chitin Sensory Receptors[OPEN]

The Plant Cell, 2020
GhWAK7A interacts with the GhCERK1-GhLYK5 chitin sensory complex and regulates cotton resistance against fungal diseases. Plant receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are important players in response to pathogen infections. Verticillium and Fusarium wilts, caused
Ping Wang, Lin Zhou, P. Jamieson, Lin Zhang, Zhixue Zhao, Kevin Babilonia, W. Shao, Lizhu Wu, Roma Mustafa, I. Amin, Alessandra Diomaiuti, D. Pontiggia, S. Ferrari, Yuxia Hou, P. He, Libo Shan   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Probiotic‐Based Materials as Living Therapeutics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Recent advances in Engineered Living Materials are highlighted, integrating synthetic biology and advanced materials, with a focus on probiotic‐based therapeutics. Probiotic Living Materials hold great potential for biosensing, infection treatment, osteogenesis, wound healing, vaginal and gastrointestinal disorders, and cancer therapy. breakthroughs in
Laura Sabio, Graham J. Day, Manuel Salmeron‐Sanchez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biological and Biologically Inspired Functional Nanostructures: Insights into Structural, Optical, Thermal, and Sensing Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Biological and biologically‐inspired functional nanostructures with structural, thermal, optical, and sensing applications are reviewed. The role of nanoscale features in biological materials on performance is described, and their blueprints are used for bio‐inspired nanomaterials, synthesized using advanced techniques (i.e., photolithography, bio ...
Chao Hsuan (Joseph) Sung, Taige Hao, Herry Fang, Andrew Tran Nguyen, Valentina Perricone, Haitao Yu, Wei Huang, Ezra Sarmiento, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Derek Lublin, Ric Wehling, Sanaz Farajollahi, Atsushi Arakaki, Dhriti Nepal, Nathan Patrick Lord, David Kisailus   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil Type and Associated Microbiome Influence Chitin's Growth Promotion Effect in Lettuce

Phytobiomes Journal
Chitin amendment of peat substrate has been proven effective in promoting lettuce growth and increasing phenolic compounds in lettuce seedlings. However, the effect of chitin soil amendment on lettuce growth in mineral soil remains unexplored. The effect
Moritz Kaufmann, Leilei Li, Christof Van Poucke, Nicola Rhyner, Caroline De Tender, Mieke Uyttendaele, Marc Heyndrickx, Cyril Zipfel, Joël F. Pothier, Bart Cottyn   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chitin Facilitated Mineralization in the Eastern Oyster

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
Chitin is often reported in molluscan shells, where it likely contributes to the mechanical strength of the biomineral. However, the role of this polysaccharide in relation to the process of shell formation is not well understood.
Vera Bin San Chan, Mary Beth Johnstone, A. P. Wheeler, Andrew S. Mount   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bacteria‐Responsive Nanostructured Drug Delivery Systems for Targeted Antimicrobial Therapy

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Bacteria‐responsive nanocarriers are designed to release antimicrobials only in the presence of infection‐specific cues. This selective activation ensures drug release precisely at the site of infection, avoiding premature or indiscriminate release, and enhancing efficacy.
Guillermo Landa, Gracia Mendoza, Silvia Irusta, Manuel Arruebo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Affinity of rhizobacterial chitinases towards chitin polymers from shrimp exoskeleton and fungal cell wall: Optimization for effective biocontrol potentials

Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications
Bacteria that can hydrolyze shrimp shell chitin and fungal cell wall chitin were isolated from tomato rhizosphere soil in an effort to find chitin-degrading enzymes. Extracellular nature of chitinase was confirmed in agarose-chitin.
Vijay Karuppiah, PK Senthil Kumar, Nagamani Kathiresan, Balasubramani Ravindran, Soon Woong Chang, Ravishankar Ram Mani, Karthikeyan Ravi, Kavitha Thangavel   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source