Seafood waste as attractive source of chitin and chitosan production and their applications

VP Santos, NSS Marques, PCSV Maia… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a cationic polymer obtained by deacetylation of chitin, found abundantly in
crustacean, insect, arthropod exoskeletons, and molluscs. The process of obtaining chitin by …

Reclamation of fishery processing waste: A mini-review

CH Wang, CT Doan, VB Nguyen, AD Nguyen… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Seafood such as fish, shellfish, and squid are a unique source of nutrients. However, many
marine processing byproducts, such as viscera, shells, heads, and bones, are discarded …

Chitin extraction from shrimp waste by liquid fermentation using an alkaline protease-producing strain, Brevibacillus parabrevis

CT Doan, TN Tran, TPK Vo, AD Nguyen… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, an extracellular protease, but no chitinolytic enzyme-producing strain,
Brevibacillus parabrevis TKU046, has been isolated and analyzed for the deproteinization …

Proteases Production and Chitin Preparation from the Liquid Fermentation of Chitinous Fishery By-Products by Paenibacillus elgii

DH Lee, CT Doan, TN Tran, VB Nguyen, AD Nguyen… - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chitinous fishery by-products have great application in the production of various bioactive
compounds. In this study, Paenibacillus elgii TKU051, a protease-producing bacterial strain …

Production and potential applications of bioconversion of chitin and protein-containing fishery byproducts into prodigiosin: A review

SL Wang, VB Nguyen, CT Doan, TN Tran, MT Nguyen… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The technology of microbial conversion provides a potential way to exploit compounds of
biotechnological potential. The red pigment prodigiosin (PG) and other PG-like pigments …

Chitosanase Production from the Liquid Fermentation of Squid Pens Waste by Paenibacillus elgii

CT Doan, TN Tran, TPH Tran, TT Nguyen, HK Nguyen… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chitosanases play a significant part in the hydrolysis of chitosan to form
chitooligosaccharides (COS) that possess diverse biological activities. This study aimed to …

The isolation of chitinase from Streptomyces thermocarboxydus and its application in the preparation of chitin oligomers

TN Tran, CT Doan, VB Nguyen, AD Nguyen… - Research on Chemical …, 2019 - Springer
Microbial chitinase has received great attention due to its medical, biological, and
agricultural applications. In this study, over 50 bacterial strains were isolated from …

Production of Thermophilic Chitinase by Paenibacillus sp. TKU052 by Bioprocessing of Chitinous Fishery Wastes and Its Application in N-acetyl-D-glucosamine …

CT Doan, TN Tran, SL Wang - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
The bioprocessing of chitinous fishery wastes (CFWs) to chitinases through fermentation
approaches has gained importance owing to its great benefits in reducing the enzyme …

Anti-oxidant and anti-diabetes potential of water-soluble chitosan–glucose derivatives produced by Maillard reaction

TN Tran, CT Doan, VB Nguyen, AD Nguyen, SL Wang - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Chitosan-sugar derivatives demonstrate some useful biology activities (for example anti-
oxidant and anti-microbial activities). In this study, water-soluble chitosan–glucose …

An exochitinase with N-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase-like activity from shrimp head conversion by Streptomyces speibonae and its application in hydrolyzing β-chitin …

TN Tran, CT Doan, MT Nguyen, VB Nguyen, TPK Vo… - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Marine chitinous byproducts possess significant applications in many fields. In this research,
different kinds of fishery chitin-containing byproducts from shrimp (shrimp head powder …