A study by analytical ultracentrifugation on the interaction between lysozyme and extensively deacetylated chitin (chitosan)

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-53

  Cölfen, Helmut ^a,b   Harding, Stephen E ^a   Vårum, Kjell M ^c   Winzor, Donald J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGATION; COMPLEXATION; ENZYMES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETERS; SEDIMENTATION;

ABSORPTION OPTICS; ANALYTICAL ULRACENTRIFUGATION; CHITOSAN; SEDIMENTATION EQUILIBRIUM; SEDIMENTATION VELOCITY;

CHITIN;

EID: 0030135034     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0144-8617(96)00045-8     Document Type: Article

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