期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
卷 112, 期 -, 页码 1021-1028出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.02.071
关键词
Chitin; Demosponges; Pseudoceratina purpurea
资金
- DFG Project (Germany) [HE 394/3-2]
- PUT Research Grant (Poland) [03/32/DSPB/0806]
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [15-29-02601]
- Russian Science Foundation [14-50-00029]
- Foundation for Polish Science [START 097.2017]
- DAAD
- Erasmus Plus programs
Among marine demosponges (Porifera: Demospongiae), only representatives of the order Verongiida have been recognized to synthetize both biologically active substances as well as scaffolds-like fibrous skeletons made of structural aminopolysaccharide chitin. The unique 3D architecture of such scaffolds open perspectives for their applications in waste treatment, biomimetics and tissue engineering. Here, we focus special attention to the demosponge Pseudoceratina purpurea collected in the coastal waters of Singapore. For the first time the detailed description of the isolation of chitin from the skeleton of this sponge and its identification using diverse bioanalytical tools were carried out. Calcofluor white staining, FTIR analysis, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), SEM, and fluorescence microscopy as well as a chitinase digestion assay were applied in order to confirm with strong evidence the finding of alpha-chitin in the skeleton of P. purpurea. We suggest that the discovery of chitin within representatives of Pseudoceratinidae family is a perspective step in evaluation of these verongiid sponges as novel renewable sources for both chitin and biologically active metabolites, which are of prospective use for marine oriented biomedicine and pharmacology, respectively. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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