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Chitinolytic digestibility of cross‐linked chitosan gels by an enzyme complex from Streptomyces kurssanovii
Author(s) -
Tikhonov VE,
Yamskov IA,
Varlamov VP,
Ilyina AV,
Davankov VA
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
biotechnology and applied biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.468
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1470-8744
pISSN - 0885-4513
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-8744.1993.tb00243.x
Subject(s) - chitosan , streptomyces , chemistry , enzyme , digestion (alchemy) , substituent , biochemistry , stereochemistry , chromatography , bacteria , biology , genetics
The action of a microbial chitinolytic enzyme complex from Streptomyces kurssanovii on chitosan gels with various degrees of cross‐linking and on the O‐derivatives of the gels was examined. The rate of digestion of the gels was shown to depend on the degree of cross‐linking as well as on the size of the O‐substituent, decreasing greatly with a rise in substitution.