[Isolation of chitin and chitosan from honey bees].
The procedure of isolation of chitin, chitosan, and water-soluble low-molecular-weight chitin from the corpses of bees was developed. This procedure included deproteinization of the corpses of bees, discoloration of the chitin-melanin complex, deacetylation, and enzymatic hydrolysis of chitosan.
Nemtsev
S V
SV
Bioinzheneriya Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117312 Russia.
Zueva
O Iu
OIu
Khismatullin
M R
MR
Al'bulov
A I
AI
Varlamov
V P
VP
D000107:Acetylation; D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees; D002686:Chitin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D048271:Chitosan
D002686:Chitin; D048271:Chitosan