TY - JOUR
T1 - Isolation and identification of chitin in three-dimensional skeleton of Aplysina fistularis marine sponge
AU - Wysokowski, Marcin
AU - Bazhenov, Vasilii V.
AU - Tsurkan, Mikhail V.
AU - Galli, Roberta
AU - Stelling, Allison L.
AU - Stöcker, Hartmut
AU - Kaiser, Sabine
AU - Niederschlag, Elke
AU - Gärtner, Günter
AU - Behm, Thomas
AU - Ilan, Micha
AU - Petrenko, Alexander Y.
AU - Jesionowski, Teofil
AU - Ehrlich, Hermann
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the following research grants: DFG Grant EH 394/3-1 (Germany), Mobilność Plus Program–920/MOB/2012/0 (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education), BMBF within the project CryPhysConcept (03EK3029A) and BHMZ
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - The recent discovery of chitin within skeletons of numerous marine and freshwater sponges (Porifera) stimulates further experiments to identify this structural aminopolysaccharide in new species of these aquatical animals. Aplysina fistularis (Verongida: Demospongiae: Porifera) is well known to produce biologically active bromotyrosines. Here, we present a detailed study of the structural and physico-chemical properties of the three-dimensional skeletal scaffolds of this sponge. Calcofluor white staining, Raman and IR spectroscopy, ESI-MS as well as chitinase digestion test were applied in order to unequivocally prove the first discovery of α-chitin in skeleton of A. fistularis.
AB - The recent discovery of chitin within skeletons of numerous marine and freshwater sponges (Porifera) stimulates further experiments to identify this structural aminopolysaccharide in new species of these aquatical animals. Aplysina fistularis (Verongida: Demospongiae: Porifera) is well known to produce biologically active bromotyrosines. Here, we present a detailed study of the structural and physico-chemical properties of the three-dimensional skeletal scaffolds of this sponge. Calcofluor white staining, Raman and IR spectroscopy, ESI-MS as well as chitinase digestion test were applied in order to unequivocally prove the first discovery of α-chitin in skeleton of A. fistularis.
KW - Chitin
KW - Marine sponges
KW - Scaffold
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2013.08.039
DO - 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2013.08.039
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AN - SCOPUS:84883631167
SN - 0141-8130
VL - 62
SP - 94
EP - 100
JO - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
JF - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
ER -