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Chitinolytic digestibility of cross-linked chitosan gels by an enzyme complex from Streptomyces kurssanovii
V E Tikhonov1, I A Yamskov, V P Varlamov
1Institute of Food Substances, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
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.