"Chitin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A linear polysaccharide of beta-1->4 linked units of ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE. It is the second most abundant biopolymer on earth, found especially in INSECTS and FUNGI. When deacetylated it is called CHITOSAN.
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D002686
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D05.750.078.139 D09.698.211
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| 1991 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Chitin" by people in Profiles.
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Chrissian C, Camacho E, Fu MS, Prados-Rosales R, Chatterjee S, Cordero RJB, Lodge JK, Casadevall A, Stark RE. Melanin deposition in two Cryptococcus species depends on cell-wall composition and flexibility. J Biol Chem. 2020 02 14; 295(7):1815-1828.
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Hayden CA, Hung CY, Zhang H, Negron A, Esquerra R, Ostroff G, Abraham A, Lopez AG, Gonzales JE, Howard JA. Maize-Produced Ag2 as a Subunit Vaccine for Valley Fever. J Infect Dis. 2019 07 19; 220(4):615-623.
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Messerli MA, Raihan MJ, Kobylkevich BM, Benson AC, Bruening KS, Shribak M, Rosenthal JJC, Sohn JJ. Construction and Composition of the Squid Pen from Doryteuthis pealeii. Biol Bull. 2019 08; 237(1):1-15.
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Hung CY, Zhang H, Castro-Lopez N, Ostroff GR, Khoshlenar P, Abraham A, Cole GT, Negron A, Forsthuber T, Peng T, Galgiani JN, Ampel NM, Yu JJ. Glucan-Chitin Particles Enhance Th17 Response and Improve Protective Efficacy of a Multivalent Antigen (rCpa1) against Pulmonary Coccidioides posadasii Infection. Infect Immun. 2018 11; 86(11).
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Camacho E, Chrissian C, Cordero RJB, Liporagi-Lopes L, Stark RE, Casadevall A. N-acetylglucosamine affects Cryptococcus neoformans cell-wall composition and melanin architecture. Microbiology (Reading). 2017 Nov; 163(11):1540-1556.
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Csoka AB, Stern R. Hypotheses on the evolution of hyaluronan: a highly ironic acid. Glycobiology. 2013 Apr; 23(4):398-411.
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Pareek N, Vivekanand V, Dwivedi P, Singh RP. Penicillium oxalicum SAEM-51: a mutagenised strain for enhanced production of chitin deacetylase for bioconversion to chitosan. N Biotechnol. 2011 Feb 28; 28(2):118-24.
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Ladner DC, Tchounwou PB, Lawrence GW. Evaluation of the effect of ecologic on root knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, and tomato plant, Lycopersicon esculenum. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2008 Jun; 5(2):104-10.
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Castellani RJ, Perry G, Smith MA. The role of novel chitin-like polysaccharides in Alzheimer disease. Neurotox Res. 2007 Dec; 12(4):269-74.
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Yu JJ, Kirkland TN, Hall LK, Wopschall J, Smith RC, Hung CY, Chen X, Tarcha E, Thomas PW, Cole GT. Characterization of a serodiagnostic complement fixation antigen of Coccidioides posadasii expressed in the nonpathogenic Fungus Uncinocarpus reesii. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Nov; 43(11):5462-9.