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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
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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
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Studies on Chitin X. Cyanoethylation of Chitin [PDF]

Polymer Journal, 1983
Tokura, Seiichi, Nishi, Norio, Nishimura, Shin-ichiro, Ikeuchi, Yoshihiro   +3 more
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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
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Isolation and characterization of chitin from Millipede (Spirobolida)

Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology, 2018
Background Chitin is the second most abundant bio-polysaccharide found in nature after cellulose. It is a polymer of β-1, 4-N-acetylglucosamine that occurs naturally in three polymorphic forms α, β, and γ-chitin. The main commercial sources of chitin are
Raghu H. S, Raghavendra S. N, Rajeshwara N. Achur   +2 more
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Bacterial chitin degradation – mechanisms and ecophysiological strategies

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2013
Chitin is one the most abundant polymers in nature and interacts with both carbon and nitrogen cycles. Processes controlling chitin degradation are summarized in reviews published some 20 years ago, but the recent use of culture-independent molecular ...
Sara eBeier, Sara eBeier, Sara eBeier, Stefan eBertilsson   +3 more
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Selection of marine bacterial consortia efficient at degrading chitin leads to the discovery of new potential chitin degraders

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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Biopolymer-chitin products by direct ink writing (DIW): A review

Hybrid Advances
The role of chitin has been focused in the domain of biochemistry, materials science, medicine, and environmental science due to its non-toxicity, biodegradability, thermostability, and biocompatibility.
Varsha Antanitta S, Jigar Patadiya, Balasubramanian Kandasubramanian   +2 more
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An artificial selection procedure enriches for known and suspected chitin degraders from the prokaryotic rare biosphere of multiple marine biotopes

BMC Microbiology
Background Biological chitin degradation is a major process in the ocean, governed primarily by the action of microorganisms. It is known that the structure and taxonomic profile of chitin-degrading microbial communities change across marine biotopes ...
Laurence Meunier, Tina Keller-Costa, David Cannella, Jorge M.S. Gonçalves, Etienne Dechamps, Matilde Marques, Rodrigo Costa, Isabelle F. George   +7 more
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A Simplified Method for Evaluating Chitin-Binding Activity Applied to YKL-40 (HC-gp39, CHI3L1) and Chitotriosidase

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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