TY - JOUR
T1 - Mining marine shellfish wastes for bioactive molecules
T2 - Chitin and chitosan -Part A: Extraction methods
AU - Hayes, Maria
AU - Carney, Brian
AU - Slater, John
AU - Brück, Wolfram
PY - 2008/7
Y1 - 2008/7
N2 - Legal restrictions, high costs and environmental problems regarding the disposal of marine processing wastes have led to amplified interest in biotechnology research concerning the identification and extraction of additional high grade, low-volume by-products produced from shellfish waste treatments. Shellfish waste consisting of crustacean exoskeletons is currently the main source of biomass for chitin production. Chitin is a polysaccharide composed of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine units and the multidimensional utilization of chitin derivatives including chitosan, a deacetylated derivative of chitin, is due to a number of characteristics including: their polyelectrolyte and cationic nature, the presence of reactive groups, high adsorption capacities, bacteriostatic and fungistatic influences, making them very versatile biomolecules. Part A of this review aims to consolidate useful information concerning the methods used to extract and characterize chitin, chitosan and glucosamine obtained through industrial, microbial and enzymatic hydrolysis of shellfish waste.
AB - Legal restrictions, high costs and environmental problems regarding the disposal of marine processing wastes have led to amplified interest in biotechnology research concerning the identification and extraction of additional high grade, low-volume by-products produced from shellfish waste treatments. Shellfish waste consisting of crustacean exoskeletons is currently the main source of biomass for chitin production. Chitin is a polysaccharide composed of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine units and the multidimensional utilization of chitin derivatives including chitosan, a deacetylated derivative of chitin, is due to a number of characteristics including: their polyelectrolyte and cationic nature, the presence of reactive groups, high adsorption capacities, bacteriostatic and fungistatic influences, making them very versatile biomolecules. Part A of this review aims to consolidate useful information concerning the methods used to extract and characterize chitin, chitosan and glucosamine obtained through industrial, microbial and enzymatic hydrolysis of shellfish waste.
KW - Bioactive molecules
KW - Chitin
KW - Chitosan
KW - Oligosaccharides
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=48749128712&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/biot.200700197
DO - 10.1002/biot.200700197
M3 - Review article
C2 - 18320562
AN - SCOPUS:48749128712
SN - 1860-6768
VL - 3
SP - 871
EP - 877
JO - Biotechnology Journal
JF - Biotechnology Journal
IS - 7
ER -
