Chitinase biochemistry

J. Inbar and I. Chet, Evidence that chitinase produced by Aeromonas caviae is, involved in the biological control of soil-borne plant pathogens by this bacteria. Sod Biology and Biochemistry 23 913 (1991). 

Blaak, H., Schnellmann, J., Walter, S., Henrissat, B. and Schrempf, H. (1993) Characteristics of an exochitinase from Streptomyces olivaceoviridis, its corresponding gene, putative protein domains and relationship to other chitinases. European Journal of Biochemistry 214, 659-669. 

Fukamizo, T. and Kramer, K.J. (1987) Effect of 20-hydroxyecdysone on chitinase and P-Af-acetylglucosaminidase during the larval-pupal transformation on Manduca sexta (L.). Insect Biochemistry 17, 547-550. 

Kramer, K.J., Corpuz, L., Choi, H.K. and Muthukrishnan, S. (1993) Sequence of a cDNA and expression of the gene encoding epidermal and gut chitinases of Manduca sexta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 23, 691-701. 

Renkema, G.H., Boot, R.G., Au, F.L., Donker-Koopman, W.E., Strijland, A., Muijsers, A.O., Hrebicek, M. and Aerts, J.M. (1998) Chitotriosidase, a chitinase, and the 39-kDa human cartilage glycoprotein, a chitin-binding lectin, are homologues of family 18 glycosyl hydrolases secreted by human macrophages. European Journal of Biochemistry 251, 504-509. 

Trudel, J. and Asselin, A. (1989) Detection of chitinase activity after polacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Analytical Biochemistry 178, 362-366. 

Watanabe, T., Uchida, M., Kobori, K and Tanaka, H. (1994) Site-directed mutagenesis of the Asp-197 and Asp-202 residues in chitinase A1 of Bacillus circulans WL-12. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry 58, 2283-2285. 

Currently there are increasing numbers of bacterial, fungal and plant chitinases being sequenced and cloned. This information will give us new insights into the comparative biochemistry of these enzymes, and undoubtedly will aid in the development of a wide range of novel applications for them. 

Hirano S., Hayashi M., Nishida T, Yamamoto T., Chitinase activity of some seeds during their germination process and its induction by treating with chitosan and derivatives, in Chitin and Chitosan Sources, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physical Properties and Applications, Eds. Brrek G.S., Anthonsen T. and Sandford R, Elsevier Applied Sci., London, 1989, pp. 733-742. 

Fukamizo, T., Sasaki, C., Schelp, E., Bortone, K., and Robertus, J.D. 2001. Kinetic properties of chitinase-1 from the fungal pathogen Coccidioides immitis. Biochemistry 40 2448-2454. 

Sikorski, P., Sprbotten, A., Horn, S.J., Eijsink, V.G., and Varum, K.M. 2006. Serratia marcescens chitinases with tunnel-shaped snbstrate-binding grooves show endo activity and different degrees of processivity during enzymatic hydrolysis of chitosan. Biochemistry 45 9566-9574. 

Muzzarelh, R. A. A., Mattioh-Belmonte, M., Pugnaloni, A., and Biagini, G. 1999. Biochemistry, histology and clinical uses of chitins and chitosans in wound heahng. In Chitin and Chitinases, eds. P. Jolles and R. A. A. Muzzarelh, pp. 285-293. Basel, Switzerland Birkhauser Verlag. 

Ramirez-Coutifio, L., Marin-Cervantes, M. D. C., Huerta, S., Revah, S., Shirai, K. Enzymatic hydrolysis of chitin in the production of oligosaccharides using Lecanicil-lium fungicola chitinases. Process Biochemistry. 2006, 41,1106-1110, 1359-5113. 

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