caa a22 4500 445318848 CHVBK 20180317142657.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10126-011-9388-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10126-011-9388-1 The Importance of Chitin in the Marine Environment [Elektronische Daten] [Claudiana Souza, Bianca Almeida, Rita Colwell, Irma Rivera] Chitin is the most abundant renewable polymer in the oceans and is an important source of carbon and nitrogen for marine organisms. The process of chitin degradation is a key step in the cycling of nutrients in the oceans and chitinolytic bacteria play a significant role in this process. These bacteria are autochthonous to both marine and freshwater ecosystems and produce chitinases that degrade chitin, an insoluble polysaccharide, to a biologically useful form. In this brief review, a description of the structure of chitin and diversity of chitinolytic bacteria in the oceans is provided, in the context of the significance of chitin degradation for marine life. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Chitin nationallicence Oceans nationallicence Chitinolytic bacteria nationallicence Chitinase nationallicence Biodiversity nationallicence Sustainability nationallicence Souza Claudiana Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, 1374, Prof. Lineu Prestes Av., 05508-000, São Paulo, Brazil aut Almeida Bianca Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, 1374, Prof. Lineu Prestes Av., 05508-000, São Paulo, Brazil aut Colwell Rita Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA aut Rivera Irma Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, 1374, Prof. Lineu Prestes Av., 05508-000, São Paulo, Brazil aut Marine Biotechnology Springer-Verlag 13/5(2011-10-01), 823-830 1436-2228 13:5<823 2011 13 10126 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-011-9388-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-011-9388-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Souza Claudiana Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, 1374, Prof. Lineu Prestes Av., 05508-000, São Paulo, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Almeida Bianca Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, 1374, Prof. Lineu Prestes Av., 05508-000, São Paulo, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Colwell Rita Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rivera Irma Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, 1374, Prof. Lineu Prestes Av., 05508-000, São Paulo, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Marine Biotechnology Springer-Verlag 13/5(2011-10-01), 823-830 1436-2228 13:5<823 2011 13 10126 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer