Studies on Adsorption Property for Metal Ions of Carboxymethyl Chitosan

Chitosan is a polymer, which contains β-1, 4-linked α-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucopyranose repeat units and is easily derived from chitin by N-deacetylation. Since chitosan is biodegradable, relatively nontoxic, nonimmunogenic, much research has been directed toward its use in medical applications^[1].It also has been suggested for use as chelating agent for metals, since the primary amino group and hydroxyl functionalities at the ring^[2]. Chitosan is only soluble in aqueous solution of some acids, so it becomes a limitation. The carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCS),a water-soluble derivative of chitosan, was synthesized by chemical modification with ClCH₂COOH and chitosan^[3]. It was amphoteric polyelectolyte with stronger chelating ability for metals because of introduction of-COOH.     

The Technology of Extracting from Waste Mycelia

Chitin is one of the most abundant natural resources. chitosan is deacetylated from chitin. As natural organisms, chitosan is easier to be decomposed with organisms and eatable. So chitosan is wildly used in biology, medicine, foodstuff, cosmetics and so on[1,2] Chitin is a sort of natural glucosamine compound with wealthy resources, but a large amount of chitin is prepared from crab shell and crayfish shell. Some research works have carried on the preparation of chitosan from other resources, such as silkworm pupa, waste mycelia etc.[3,4]     

Preparation and release characteristics of cisplatin albumin microspheres containing chitin and treated with chitosan

Cisplatin (CDDP) containing albumin microspheres and microcapsules incorporating biodegradable macromolecules, chitin and chitosan, were prepared, and their CDDP content and releasing ability and susceptibility to various enzymes were examined. Chitin was incorporated during preparation of the microspheres, while chitosan was used to treat preformed microspheres. CDDP content was remarkably increased by chitin; when chitin was incorporated at a concentration of 1.5%, the CDDP content of the microspheres was found to be 16.2% (1.8 times that with no addition of chitin). CDDP release was suppressed by chitin and chitosan. The 50% CDDP release time was about 1.5 h when no chitin was added, but about 16 h was required when chitin was incorporated into the microspheres at a concentration of 1.5%. Chitin and chitosan suppressed the decomposition by protease. The microspheres treated with 70% deacetylated chitosan showed the greatest susceptibility to lysozyme. In conclusion, CDDP release can be controlled by the use of chitin or chitosan, and the microspheres should show no immunogenicity in vivo because of their susceptibility to lysozyme.     

Preparation and Properties of Alginate/Water‐Soluble Chitin Blend Fibers

Water‐soluble chitin (half‐deacetylated chitin) was prepared from chitosan by N‐acetylation with acetic anhydride. Alginate/water‐soluble chitin blend fibers were prepared by spinning their mixture solution through a viscose‐type spinneret into a coagulating bath containing aqueous CaCl₂ and ethanol. The structure and properties of the blend fibers were studied with the aids of infrared spectra (IR), X‐ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). structure analysis indicated good miscibility existed between alginate and water‐soluble chitin, due to the strong interaction from the intermolecular hydrogen bonds and electrostatic interactions. Best values for the dry tensile strength and breaking elongation were obtained when the water‐soluble chitin content was 30 wt%. The wet tensile strength and breaking elongation decreased with the increase of water‐soluble chitin content. The introduction of water‐soluble chitin in the blend fiber can improve the water‐retention properties of the blend fiber compared to pure alginate fiber. The fibers treated with aqueous solution of silver nitrate have good antibacterial activity to Staphylococcus aureus.     

Synthetic modifications of chitin and chitosan as multipurpose biopolymers: A review

Chitin and chitosan are well-thought-out multipurpose biopolymers. Chitosan which is deacetylated chitin is useful than chitin and is biomaterial of great interest. Regardless of its biodegradability, chemical modifications suggest due to the amino side reactivity, helps to impart it other great qualities. Herein, we discuss the preparative methods of synthetically modified derivatives, some are commercially available. This review shields the literature from last few decades.     

Biological activities of biodegradable polysaccharide

A low toxicity of chitin was demonstrated to be mostly due to biodegradability and the fast metabolization of hydrolysate in animal body. Chitosan, a deacetylated derivative of chitin, is also known to be a biocompatible polymer in spite of a slight immunoadjuvant activity in animal body. Chitosan is easily regenerated to fiber, film, beads and non woven fabrics owing to its high solubility toward diluted aqueous organic acids such as formic acid, acetic acid, glutamic acid and ascorbic acid. The regeneration of chitin was achieved into fibers, gels, porous foams and non woven fabrics following to dissolution of chitin with formic acid or calcium chloride dihydrate saturated methanol. Chitin and its derivatives have been applied as biomedical materials due to remarkable advantages such as antimicrobial activity, acceleration of epidermal cell assembly, low toxicity, and biodegradability.     

CHITIN AND CHITOSAN FOR VERSATILE APPLICATIONS

ABSTRACT

Chitin and chitosan are versatile polymers, where the interest in chitosan is due to the large variety of useful forms that are commercially available or can be made available. Chitin basically is obtained from prawn/crab shells; chemical treatment of chitin produces chitosan. This article surveys applications of chitin and chitosan in various industrial and biomedical fields.     

Mouse Acidic Chitinase Effectively Degrades Random-Type Chitosan to Chitooligosaccharides of Variable Lengths under Stomach and Lung Tissue pH Conditions

Chitooligosaccharides exhibit several biomedical activities, such as inflammation and tumorigenesis reduction in mammals. The mechanism of the chitooligosaccharides’ formation in vivo has been, however, poorly understood. Here we report that mouse acidic chitinase (Chia), which is widely expressed in mouse tissues, can produce chitooligosaccharides from deacetylated chitin (chitosan) at pH levels corresponding to stomach and lung tissues. Chia degraded chitin to produce N-acetyl-d-glucosamine (GlcNAc) dimers. The block-type chitosan (heterogenous deacetylation) is soluble at pH 2.0 (optimal condition for mouse Chia) and was degraded into chitooligosaccharides with various sizes ranging from di- to nonamers. The random-type chitosan (homogenous deacetylation) is soluble in water that enables us to examine its degradation at pH 2.0, 5.0, and 7.0. Incubation of these substrates with Chia resulted in the more efficient production of chitooligosaccharides with more variable sizes was from random-type chitosan than from the block-type form of the molecule. The data presented here indicate that Chia digests chitosan acquired by homogenous deacetylation of chitin in vitro and in vivo. The degradation products may then influence different physiological or pathological processes. Our results also suggest that bioactive chitooligosaccharides can be obtained conveniently using homogenously deacetylated chitosan and Chia for various biomedical applications.     

甲壳素和壳聚糖作为天然生物高分子材料的研究进展

甲壳素是自然界中含量仅次于纤维素的天然高分子,壳聚糖是甲壳素脱乙酰化后带有阳离子的多糖.壳聚糖中的自由氨基以及它的高结晶性,使得它能溶于酸,而不溶于碱和绝大数的有机溶剂.同时壳聚糖具有无毒性、无刺激性、良好的生物相容性、生物可溶解性, 以及高的电荷密度,因而被作为一种新型的天然生物材料得到广泛应用.文章介绍了甲壳素和壳聚糖的结构和性质,综述分析了甲壳素和壳聚糖在制备微球和作为支架材料中的应用, 并总结了甲壳素和壳聚糖在这两个方面存在的问题和发展前景.     

Current Status and New Perspectives on Chitin and Chitosan as Functional Biopolymers

The natural biopolymer chitin and its deacetylated product chitosan are found abundantly in nature as structural building blocks and are used in all sectors of human activities like materials science, nutrition, health care, and energy. Far from being fully recognized, these polymers are able to open opportunities for completely novel applications due to their exceptional properties which an economic value is intrinsically entrapped. On a commercial scale, chitosan is mainly obtained from crustacean shells rather than from the fungal and insect sources. Significant efforts have been devoted to commercialize chitosan extracted from fungal and insect sources to completely replace crustacean-derived chitosan. However, the traditional chitin extraction processes are laden with many disadvantages. The present review discusses the potential bioextraction of chitosan from fungal, insect, and crustacean as well as its superior physico-chemical properties. The different aspects of fungal, insects, and crustacean chitosan extraction methods and various parameters having an effect on the yield of chitin and chitosan are discussed in detail. In addition, this review also deals with essential attributes of chitosan for high value-added applications in different fields and highlighted new perspectives on the production of chitin and deacetylated chitosan from different sources with the concomitant reduction of the environmental impact.     

Synthesis and Characterization of β-Poly(glucose-amine)-N-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl) Derivatives as Medical Care and Biological Joint Material. Family 2. Tri or Tetra-Sulfated β-Chitosan

Chitin is a natural polysaccharide by N-acetyl-D-glucosamine units β(1-4) linked. In the present work a chitosan with DA 56% and Mv 80.000 g/mol will be employed. Several techniques to obtain sulphate derivatives of chitin and to chitosan have been proposed due to the interesting biological and chemical properties of such as heparin compounds. Among others it could be mentioned their antibactericidal and metal chelating properties. In the present work a new sulfated derivatives of chitosan with potential growth regulator properties were obtained. The reaction was carried out in heterogeneous media using a commercial growth regulator -SO₃H as sulfating agent. All derivatives were characterized by several spectroscopic techniques. In IR spectra the bands at 1240 cm⁻¹, (S=O stretching) and 860 cm⁻¹, corresponding to S-O-C symmetric stretching, are characteristic of sulphates groups. In ¹H-NMR spectra the appearance of functional group signal confirm its structure.     

甲壳素/壳聚糖在环境治理上的应用

天然高分子化合物甲壳素、壳聚糖具有原料丰富、无毒、易于生物降解等优点,国内外众多学者对它的开发应用展开研究,本文综述了甲壳素、壳聚糖及其衍生物对环境污染物的去除,介绍了它在环境治理尤其是废水处理中的研究和应用情况。     

Extraction and Characterization of Chitin and Chitosan from Parapenaeus longirostris from Moroccan Local Sources

The contents of the exoskeleton of Parapenaeus longirostris from Moroccan local sources were analyzed and the percentages of inorganic salt, protein, lipid, and chitin were determined. Chitin in the α form was extracted from Parapenaeus longirostris shells by 0.25 M HCl and 1 M NaOH treatment for demineralization and deproteinization, respectively. The obtained chitin was converted into the more useful soluble chitosan. The chemical structure and physico-chemical properties of chitin and chitosan were characterized using Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffractometry (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The molecular weight (MW) of chitosan was determined by viscometric methods. The degree of acetylation (DA) of chitin and chitosan was determined by the ¹H NMR technique. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report on the extraction and characterization of chitin and chitosan from Parapenaeus longirostris.     

甲壳素和壳聚糖在伤口敷料中的应用

天然高分子甲壳素和壳聚糖以其良好的生物相容性、生物可降解性、无毒、止血、止痛、抗菌、促进伤口愈合并减少疤痕等优点,在伤口敷料方面的研究正在引起人们的重视。本文对甲壳素和壳聚糖适于作为伤口敷料的优异性能从机理上进行了讨论,并介绍了通过甲壳素、壳聚糖及其衍生物制备性能优异的伤口敷料的研究进展。     

Acidic Proteases from Monterey Sardine (Sardinops sagax caerulea) Immobilized on Shrimp Waste Chitin and Chitosan Supports: Searching for a By-product Catalytic System

Solid wastes generated from the seafood industry represent an important environmental pollutant; therefore, utilization of those wastes for the development of processing biochemical tools could be an attractive and clean solution for the seafood industry. This study reports the immobilization of semi-purified acidic proteases from Monterey sardine stomachs onto chitin and chitosan materials extracted from shrimp head waste. Several supports (chitosan beads, chitosan flakes, and partially deacetylated flakes) were activated either with genipin or Na-tripolyphosphate and evaluated as a mean to immobilize acidic proteases. The protein load varied within the 67–91 % range on different supports. The immobilization systems based on chitosan beads achieved the highest protein loads but showed the lowest retained catalytic activities. The best catalytic behavior was obtained using partially deacetylated chitin flakes activated either with genipin or Na-tripolyphosphate. According to results, the immobilization matrix structure, as well as acetylation degree of chitin–chitosan used, has considerable influence on the catalytic behavior of immobilized proteases. Partially deacetylated chitin flakes represent a suitable option as support for enzyme immobilization because its preparation requires fewer steps than other supports. Two abundant seafood by-products were used to obtain a catalytic system with enough proteolytic activity to be considered for biotechnological applications in diverse fields.     

Atypical polysaccharide physical gels: structure/property relationships

Chitin and chitosan are polysaccharides produced by the biomass. They have the same general chemical structure and constitute the series of linear copolymers of linked β, (1->4) glucosamine and N-actylglucosamine. We studied the possibility of forming physical gels with all the terms of this series, whatever the proportion of the two kinds of residues included in the polymer chains. We show that physical gelation is still possible through a percolating process when certain important conditions are met. Initially the concentration in polymer must be above C*; a critical value of the balance between hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions must be achieved and gelation must occur simultaneously everywhere in the medium. These conditions were observed in several situations allowing the formation of different kinds of gels at all values of DA. In view of the rare bio-active properties of chitin and chitosan, these gels were tested for living tissue regeneration and constitute very interesting examples in illustration of our concept of decoys for biological media.     

Lactic acid demineralization of green crab (Carcinus maenas) shells: effect of reaction conditions and isolation of an unusual calcium complex

Chitin and chitosan are potentially useful and environmentally friendly biopolymers with a wide range of value-added applications. Effective and green technologies for isolation of these materials are potentially important. Here, we report the use of lactic acid for the demineralization of green crab shells. Green crab shells and lactic acid, produced during cheese making, are two waste streams that could be tapped for large-scale chitin and chitosan processing. We have studied the effect of concentration and temperature on the demineralization of green crab shells. An unusual calcium lactate/lactic acid complex was also isolated and crystallographically characterized. The results have implications not only for the use of weak acids in the isolation of chitin and chitosan but also for the use of lactic acid as a solvent in green chemistry.     

水溶性甲壳素及其膜的制备与表征

通过对高脱乙酰度壳聚糖进行均相乙酰化反应，制得脱乙酰度为51．7％的水溶性甲壳素，产物有很好的水溶性．通过红外光谱、X-射线衍射、差热分析等测试表征了水溶性甲壳素结构．结果表明，水溶性甲壳素的结构发生了较大变化，结晶性显著下降是导致水溶性增加的主要原因．     

热塑性甲壳素衍生物N,O-苄基壳聚糖的合成及表征

天然高分子的热塑化一直引起人们的极大关注．由于存在大量的分子内和分子间氢键,一般天然高分子都不能加热塑化,从而限制了其应用．纤维素和淀粉的热塑化改性已有了许多研究．典型的热塑性纤维素衍生物有乙基纤维素、醋酸纤维素和经丙基纤维素等[1,2],有些纤维素衍生物还具有热致液晶性．淀粉的某些衍生物也已有热塑性[3]．在分子结构上,甲壳素／壳聚糖比纤维素或淀粉多了乙酰氨基和氨基,更易形成氢键,分子间作用力更强．迄今,国内外已报道了大量甲壳素／壳聚糖衍生物,但均无热塑性．我们曾合成具有热塑性的氰乙基经丙基壳聚糖,但熔点与分解温度之间只有27℃E4J．热塑性甲壳素的研究不仅为甲壳素的加工利用开辟了新途径,而且也将为热致性甲壳素液晶的研究奠定基础,从而进一步丰富和深化目前以纤维素衍生物为主的热致胆舀液晶研究[5,6]．为此,本文研究了一种新的热塑性甲壳素衍生物,并从结构上讨论了其具有热塑性的原因．     

Chitin and Chitosan Fibers

Chitin and chitosan are natural polymers extracted from various plants and animals. In recent years, these two polymers have attracted much interest because of their biodegradability, biocompatibility, wound-healing acceleration and many other unique properties. As a natural renewable resource, they offer many potential applications in a number of diversified fields. Chitin and chitosan fibers have been found useful as a biomaterial for potential applications such as sutures and wound dressings. This article presents a brief introduction to the properties of chitin and chitosan, and reviews the various attempts for the production of fibers from the two polymers. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.