Comparative physicochemical analysis of chitin quality of the two tagmata in the exoskeleton of the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus.
Biopolymers
Chitin
Horseshoe crab
Marine arthropods waste
Journal
International journal of biological macromolecules
ISSN: 1879-0003
Titre abrégé: Int J Biol Macromol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7909578
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023
Historique:
received:
05
04
2023
revised:
22
05
2023
accepted:
23
06
2023
medline:
16
8
2023
pubmed:
27
6
2023
entrez:
26
6
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Recently, chitin biopolymer has received much attention as a wide variety of biomedical application for this and its derivatives have been reported, in fact, the study of non-conventional species as alternative sources of them compounds has taken particular interest. Here, we present a comparative physicochemical survey of the two tagmata in the exoskeleton of the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus: the prosoma and the opisthosoma, collected in Yucatán, Mexico. The characterization included CHNSO analysis, FTIR, TGA, DSC, XRD, and SEM. The CHNSO analysis revealed that C is present in the highest proportion (∼45 %) and that chemical composition did not show significant differences (P < 0.05) between the two tagmata. FTIR spectra of two tagmata presented a wide characteristic band of the chitin between 3600 and 3000 cm
Identifiants
pubmed: 37364812
pii: S0141-8130(23)02457-1
doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.125563
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Chitin
1398-61-4
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
125563Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest All authors declared that there was no conflict of interest.