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Chitin, Chitosan, and Nanochitin: Extraction, Synthesis, and Applications
Polymers, 2022 Crustacean shells are a sustainable source of chitin. Extracting chitin from crustacean shells is ongoing research, much of which is devoted to devising a sustainable process that yields high-quality chitin with minimal waste.
Michael Kozma, B. Acharya, R. Bissessur
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Studies on Chitin I. Enzymic Degradation of Chitin and Chitin Esters [PDF]
Australian Journal of Biological Sciences, 1954 A study has been made O'f the enzymic degradation of chitin and the sodium salt of chitin sulphuric acid by a chitinase prepared from the intestinal tract of the snail, Helix aspersa. It is shown that, in a citrate-phosphate buffer, the pH for optimum activity is 4.8 for both substrates.
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Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2021 Chitin and its derived products have immense economic value due to their vital role in various biological activities as well as biomedical and industrial application.
F. Jabeen +8 more
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Effects of Ball Milling, Ultrosonic or Hydrochloric Acid Treatment on the Microstructure and Enzymatic Deacetylation Efficiency of Chitin [PDF]
Shipin Kexue, 2023 Chitin is the second most abundant natural polysaccharide on Earth, which can be deacetylated to produce chitosan. However, due to the high crystallinity and poor solubility of chitin, its efficiency of enzymatic deacetylation is very low. To investigate
XIAO Yu, YU Hongwei, MA Aijin, SANG Yaxin, SUN Jilu
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Imobilisasi Asam Humat Pada Kitin Dan Aplikasinya Sebagai Adsorben Cr(III)
Indonesian Journal of Chemical Research, 2018 Immobilization of humic acid on chitin has been conducted and applied to the adsorption of Cr(III). The humic acid was isolated using NaOH 0.1 M, while chitin was isolated by deproteination of crab shells by using NaOH 3.5 % (w/v) and followed by ...
Muhamad Sehol +2 more
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Journal of Fungi, 2022 Phytopathogenic fungi have evolved mechanisms to manipulate plant defences, such as chitin-triggered immunity, a plant defensive response based on the recognition of chitin oligomers by plant-specific receptors.
Jesús M. Martínez-Cruz +8 more
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Seafood Waste as Attractive Source of Chitin and Chitosan Production and Their Applications
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 Chitosan is a cationic polymer obtained by deacetylation of chitin, found abundantly in crustacean, insect, arthropod exoskeletons, and molluscs. The process of obtaining chitin by the chemical extraction method comprises the steps of deproteinization ...
V. P. Santos +5 more
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Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2020 Background Insects are a living resource used for human nutrition, medicine, and industry. Several potential sources of proteins, peptides, and biopolymers, such as silk, chitin, and chitosan are utilized in industry and for biotechnology applications ...
K. Mohan +7 more
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Giant, 2020 Chitin is the most abundant natural glycosaminoglycan that is derived from marine crustaceans and has enormous potential in biomedical applications because of its high similarity in chemical structure to the component of extracellular matrix.
Junchao Huang +4 more
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Chitin nanofiber elucidates the elicitor activity of polymeric chitin in plants
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2015 Chitin, an N-acetyl-D-glucosamine polymer, is a component of fungal cell walls and a microbe/pathogen-associated molecular pattern that elicits plant defense responses.
Mayumi eEgusa +7 more
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