The preparation of low-molecular-weight chitosan using chitinolytic complex from Streptomyces kurssanovii

Process Biochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 875-878

  Ilyina, Alla V ^a   Tatarinova, Natalya Yu ^a   Varlamov, Valery P ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chitinase; Chitinolytic complex; Chitosan; Chitosan hydrolysis; S. kurssanovii; Water soluble

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; CHITOSAN; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PH; STREPTOMYCES; TEMPERATURE;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES KURSSANOVII;

EID: 0032746882     PISSN: 13595113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-9592(99)00022-9     Document Type: Article

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