Chitin Research Revisited

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. In this review, various aspects of chitin research including sources, structure, biosynthesis,...

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Autores principales: Khoushab, Feisal, Yamabhai, Montarop
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20714419
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md8071988
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description 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. In this review, various aspects of chitin research including sources, structure, biosynthesis, chitinolytic enzyme, chitin binding protein, genetic engineering approach to produce chitin, chitin and evolution, and a wide range of applications in bio- and nanotechnology will be dealt with.
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spelling pubmed-29205382010-08-16 Chitin Research Revisited Khoushab, Feisal Yamabhai, Montarop Mar Drugs Review 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. In this review, various aspects of chitin research including sources, structure, biosynthesis, chitinolytic enzyme, chitin binding protein, genetic engineering approach to produce chitin, chitin and evolution, and a wide range of applications in bio- and nanotechnology will be dealt with. Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2010-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2920538/ /pubmed/20714419 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md8071988 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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