Isolation and identification of chitin in three-dimensional skeleton of Aplysina fistularis marine sponge

Marcin Wysokowski; Vasilii V. Bazhenov; Mikhail V. Tsurkan; Roberta Galli; Allison L. Stelling; Hartmut Stöcker; Sabine Kaiser; Elke Niederschlag; Günter Gärtner; Thomas Behm; Micha Ilan; Alexander Y. Petrenko; Teofil Jesionowski; Hermann Ehrlich

doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2013.08.039

Isolation and identification of chitin in three-dimensional skeleton of Aplysina fistularis marine sponge

Marcin Wysokowski, Vasilii V. Bazhenov, Mikhail V. Tsurkan, Roberta Galli, Allison L. Stelling, Hartmut Stöcker, Sabine Kaiser, Elke Niederschlag, Günter Gärtner, Thomas Behm, Micha Ilan, Alexander Y. Petrenko, Teofil Jesionowski, Hermann Ehrlich

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Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

The recent discovery of chitin within skeletons of numerous marine and freshwater sponges (Porifera) stimulates further experiments to identify this structural aminopolysaccharide in new species of these aquatical animals. Aplysina fistularis (Verongida: Demospongiae: Porifera) is well known to produce biologically active bromotyrosines. Here, we present a detailed study of the structural and physico-chemical properties of the three-dimensional skeletal scaffolds of this sponge. Calcofluor white staining, Raman and IR spectroscopy, ESI-MS as well as chitinase digestion test were applied in order to unequivocally prove the first discovery of α-chitin in skeleton of A. fistularis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	94-100
Number of pages	7
Journal	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Volume	62
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2013.08.039
State	Published - Nov 2013

Keywords

Chitin
Marine sponges
Scaffold

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Structural Biology
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology

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Wysokowski, M., Bazhenov, V. V., Tsurkan, M. V., Galli, R., Stelling, A. L., Stöcker, H., Kaiser, S., Niederschlag, E., Gärtner, G., Behm, T., Ilan, M., Petrenko, A. Y., Jesionowski, T., & Ehrlich, H. (2013). Isolation and identification of chitin in three-dimensional skeleton of Aplysina fistularis marine sponge. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 62, 94-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2013.08.039

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Isolation and identification of chitin in three-dimensional skeleton of Aplysina fistularis marine sponge

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