Eating foods rich in dietary fiber is part of a healthy diet. One lesser-known rich source of dietary fiber called chitin can be found in the exoskeletons of crustaceans and insects, as well as in ...
Acidic mammalian chitinase (AMCase) is a specialised enzyme primarily responsible for the degradation of chitin, a naturally occurring polysaccharide found in the exoskeletons of arthropods and the ...
Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society the use of three-dimensional atomic force microscopy (AFM) and ...