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- Chitinolytic enzymes break down chitin and are gaining popularity due to their applications in fields like medicine, food, and cosmetics.
- Marine chitinolytic enzymes are preferred in industrial applications because they often perform better than those sourced from animals, plants, or bacteria.
- The review covers various aspects of marine chitinolytic enzymes, including their biological functions, how they work, how they are produced, and their uses in biotechnology.
Article Abstract
Chitinolytic enzymes are capable to catalyze the chitin hydrolysis. Due to their biomedical and biotechnological applications, nowadays chitinolytic enzymes have attracted worldwide attention. Chitinolytic enzymes have provided numerous useful materials in many different industries, such as food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, or biomedical industry. Marine enzymes are commonly employed in industry because they display better operational properties than animal, plant, or bacterial homologs. In this mini-review, we want to describe marine chitinolytic enzymes as versatile enzymes in different biotechnological fields. In this regard, interesting comments about their biological role, reaction mechanism, production, functional characterization, immobilization, and biotechnological application are shown in this work.
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