Abstract
Researchers at Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University found a novel fungal chitosanase. The enzyme was extracted from a strain of the soil fungus, Paecilomyces lilacinus. When the isolated chitonase was used to hydrolyze 95% deacetylated chitosan, the main products were chitotriose, chitotetraose and chitopentaose. Two oligosaccharides, GlcN-GlcN-GlcNAc and GlcNAc-GlcN-GlcN-GlcNAc, were present in lesser quantities.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 1 |
| Volume | 27 |
| No | 5 |
| Specialist publication | Industrial Bioprocessing |
| State | Published - 1 May 2005 |