Chitin in Nature and Technology

Herausgegeben:Gooday, G. W.; Jeuniaux, C.; Muzzarelli, R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exegi monumentum ael'e perennius. The monument I have built will last longer than bronze. Horace My previous book, "Chitin", (1977) was listed by the publisher, as a "key research book", among the most requested books by libraries. It received favorable comments from. each of the journals which reviewed it, Science, 198, 28 Oct. 1977, Physiological Entomology, 2(4), Dec. 1977, The Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology Journal, April 1978, The Quarterly Review of Biology, 53:361, 1978, Oceanographic Abstracts, 15:182, 1979, Annales de Zoologie-Ecologie Animale, 11:127, 1979, and Enzyme & Microbial Technology, 2, 1980. The variety of these journals testifies to the interdisci plinary character of chitin studies. "Chitin" has really been a landmark, to use the definition given by Science, because it stimulated interest in the less known polysaccharides and in modified chitins, besides chitin itself, to the point that three International Conferences on Chitin / Chitosan were convened (Boston, U. S. A. 1977, Sapporo, Japan 1982 and Senigallia, Italy 1985). In convening the 3rd International Conference on Chitin / Chitosan (1-4 April 1985), one of the main objectives was the preparation of the present book. While the proceedings of the previous two Conferences were very valuable, they did not appear in any book catalogs and this severely Ii mi ted their distribution.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4612-9277-7
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
• Seitenzahl: 596
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1105g
• ISBN-13: 9781461292777
• ISBN-10: 1461292778
• Artikelnr.: 39686415

Inhaltsangabe

Progress toward solving the structures of polysaccharides.- Section I Chitin in Skeletal Structures of Animals.- Chitinoproteic complexes and mineralization in Mollusk skeletal structures.- Characterization of the insect cuticle layers by laser Raman Spectrometry.- Structural studies on the sclerotized insect cuticle.- Chitin-protein molecular organization in Arthropod cuticles.- Pore canals and organization of chitinoproteins in the cuticle of the crab Carcinus maenas.- Lipid-linked intermediates in crustacean chitin synthesis.- Section II Chitin in Skeletal Structures of Microbes.- The role of chitin in fungal growth and morphogenesis.- The role of chitin in hyphal morphogenesis.- Chitin synthesis, dimorphism and virulence in the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans.- Effect of Congo Red on yeast morphogenesis.- Roles of chitinases in fungal growth.- Chitin estimation to measure fungal biomass.- Studies of autolytic enzymes in fungi.- Comparison of chitin fibril structure and assembly in three unicellular organisms.- Polygalactosamine produced by a microorganism.- Section III Chitin Synthesis Inhibition.- Benzoylaryl ureas insecticides: compounds interfering with chitin synthesis.- Inhibition of chitin synthesis in insect systems.- Chitin biosynthesis in insects and its disruption as a means of pest control.- Comparative effects of benzoylaryl ureas on insects.- Biosynthesis of chitin by insect epidermal cells: effect of benzoyl phenyl ureas.- Effect of diflubenzuron on the cuticle of crab larvae.- Toxicity of diflubenzuron to non-target organisms.- Chitin inhibitors in pest management in India.- Mode of inhibition of chitin synthesis by diflubenzuron.- New synthetic polyoxin analogs for chitin synthesis inhibition.- Nikkomycin Z as inhibitor of Candida albicans growth.- Section IV Molecular Recognition and Biodegradation.- Chitosan both activates genes in plants and inhibits RNA synthesis in fungi.- Chitosan and other polyamines: antifungal activity and interaction with biological membranes.- Chitinase, a defense of higher plant against pathogens.- Plant chitinases and lysozymes.- The role of chitinases and chitin syntase inhibitors in controlling plant pathogenic fungi.- Chitinase activities in animals, fungi and bacteria.- Chitin deacetylases in invertebrates.- Recognition of human erythrocytes by a chitin-binding lectin of a fungus, Conidiobolus lamprauges.- Section V Chemistry of Chitin.- Dry chitosan salts and complexes of aliphatic carboxyl acids.- Chemical modifications of chitin and chitosan.- Chemically modified chitosans.- The chelating ability of aminoacid glucans and sugar acid chitosans.- Ionic interactions between chitosan and oxidised cellulose.- Chitin and chitosan solutions.- Synthesis of oligosaccharides representing the chitobiosyl link in glycoproteins.- Stable isotopic studies on chitin, measurements on chitin/chitosan isolates and D-glucosamine hydrochloride from chitin.- Characterization of chitin derivatives by pyrolysis-gas chromatography.- Synthesis and physico-chemical properties of the polyampholyte chitosan 6-sulfate.- Small angle x-ray scattering study of chitosan 6-sulfate in water.- The determination of the degree of acetylation of chitosans by spectrophotometry.- Filmogenic properties of chitin/chitosan.- Physical modifications of chitin and chitosan.- Whole cells and enzymes immobilized on chitosan.- Section VI Medical Uses of Chitin.- Chitosan effect in vascular surgery, tissue culture and tissue regeneration.- Evaluation of chitosan as a new hemostatic agent: in vitro and in vivo experiments.- Inhibitory action of sulfated chitin derivatives on the hydrolytic activity of thrombin.- Sulfated derivatives of chitosan and their characterization with respect to biological activity.- Sulfated N-carboxymethyl chitosans as blood anticoagulants.- Immunological activity of chitin derivatives.- Immunopotentiating effect of N-acetyl-chito-oligosaccharides.- Adhesion properties of mouse spleen lymphocytes on chitin and its derivatives.- Biomedical evaluation of acylated chitins as coating materials.- Chitosan in dentistry.- Section VII Chitin Ecology.- Chitin production by animals and natural communities in marine environment.- Chitin diagenesis in deep-water sediments.- Anaerobic decomposition of chitin in fresh water sediments.- Chitinolytic communities from an anaerobic estuarine environment.- Chitin degradation in natural environment (Mollusk shells and crab carapaces).- Chitosan as a tool for the purification of waters.- Author Index.- Organism Index.