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Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2013 Chitin, the second most abundant polysaccharide in nature after cellulose, is found in the exoskeleton of insects, fungi, yeast, and algae, and in the internal structures of other vertebrates. Chitinases are enzymes that degrade chitin.
Rifat Hamid +6 more
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Chitinases as Food Allergens [PDF]
Molecules, 2019 Food allergies originate from adverse immune reactions to some food components. Ingestion of food allergens can cause effects of varying severity, from mild itching to severe anaphylaxis reactions.
Claudia Leoni +4 more
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Chitinases and chitinase-like proteins in asthma [PDF]
Seminars in Immunology, 2023 Despite the lack of endogenous chitin synthesis, mammalian genomes encode two enzymatically active true chitinases (chitotriosidase and acidic mammalian chitinase) and a variable number of chitinase-like proteins (CLPs) that have no enzyme activity but bind chitin.
Jozefien Declercq +3 more
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Chitinases and chitinase-like proteins as biomarkers in neurologic disorders [PDF]
Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, 2021 Chitinases are hydrolytic enzymes widely distributed in nature. Despite their physiologic and pathophysiologic roles are not well understood, chitinases are emerging as biomarkers in a broad range of neurologic disorders, where in many cases, protein levels measured in the CSF have been shown to correlate with disease activity and progression.
Pinteac, Rucsanda +2 more
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Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2018 This article reviews the developments related to Streptomyces chitinases regulation and their post translational modifications. Chitinases are enzymes which cleave chitin, a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine to its monomer.
Amrathlal Rabbind Singh
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Chitinases from pitcher fluid of Nepenthes distillatoria
Ceylon Journal of Science, 2019 Chitinases belong to a diverse family of enzymes among many other hydrolytic enzymes of the pitcher fluid of Nepenthes sp. There are no existing studies on identification of chitinases in Nepenthes distillatoria the only representative of the genus ...
R. W. K. M. Senevirathna +2 more
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, 2019 In many yeast and fungi, β-(1,3)-glucan and chitin are essential components of the cell wall, an important structure that surrounds cells and which is responsible for their mechanical protection and necessary for maintaining the cellular shape. In addition, the cell wall is a dynamic structure that needs to be remodelled along with the different phases
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Neuroinflammation significantly contributes to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) pathology. In lieu of this, reports of elevated chitinase levels in ALS are interesting, as they are established surrogate markers of a chronic inflammatory response ...
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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.
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Marine Drugs, 2022 Chitooligosaccharides (COSs) have been widely used in agriculture, medicine, cosmetics, and foods, which are commonly prepared from chitin with chitinases.
Xue-Bing Ren +8 more
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