chitosanases

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A form of chitosanase — An enzyme that catalyses the endohydrolysis of beta-(1->4)-linkages between D-glucosamine residues in a partly acetylated chitosan.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of chitosanase

    Chitosan (CS, (C 6 H 11 O 4 N) n ) is an N-deacetylation product of chitin and a unique polysaccharide biopolymer that can be degraded in vivo by chitosanases and glucosaminidase to ultimately form glucose[8 ].

    2015 August 11, “Ectopic Osteogenesis and Scaffold Biodegradation of Nano-Hydroxyapatite-Chitosan in a Rat Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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