Two centuries after the discovery of chitin, it is widely accepted that this biopolymer is an
important biomaterial in many aspects. Numerous studies on chitin have focused on its …

The chitinolytic machinery of S erratia marcescens is one of the best known enzyme systems
for the conversion of insoluble polysaccharides. This machinery includes four chitin‐active …

Abstract Glycoside hydrolase family 18 (GH18) chitinases, which catalyze the
biodegradation of β-1, 4 glycosidic bond in amino polysaccharides via a substrate-assisted …

Bacterial chitinases (EC 3.2. 1.14) and chitin-binding proteins (CBPs) play a fundamental
role in the degradation of the ubiquitous biopolymer chitin, and the degradation products …

Endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase from Mucor hiemalis (Endo-M), a family 85 glycoside
hydrolase, acts on the β1, 4 linkage of N, N′-diacetylchitobiose moiety in the N-linked …

Degradation of recalcitrant polysaccharides in nature is typically accomplished by mixtures
of processive and nonprocessive glycoside hydrolases (GHs), which exhibit synergistic …

Chitin metabolism is an essential life sustaining activity of phytophagous insects,
phytopathogenic fungi and parasitic nematode which are the major limiting factors of …

Enzymatic features that determine transglycosylating activity have been investigated through
site-directed mutagenesis studies on two family 18 chitinases, ChiA and ChiB from Serratia …

Insects possess a greater number of chitinases than any other organisms. This work is the
first report of unliganded and oligosaccharide-complexed crystal structures of the insect …

Expression of a class V chitinase gene (At4g19810, AtChiC) in Arabidopsis thaliana was
examined by quantitative real-time PCR and by analyzing microarray data available at …