2.4 Utilization Of Polysaccharide Degradation Products Case Study

2.4 Utilization of polysaccharide degradation products
2.4.1 Chitin degradation products Chitin can be degraded by chitinase which have the ability to degrade chitin directly to low molecular weight chitooligomers, which serve a broad range of industrial, agricultural, and medical functions. It also has a wide-ranging applications including the preparation of pharmaceutically important chitooligosaccharides and N-acetyl-D-glucoseamine, and as mosquito control. Chitooligosaccharides have an extensive pharmaceutical potential. They are involved in the signaling for root nodule formation (Hamid et al., 2013) that acts as elicitors of plant defense. Others, they also have a potential to be used in human medicines such as acts as anti-tumor activity. It was reported by Murao et al., 1992, that chitiotriose from colloidal chitin have been prepared using a chitinase from Vibrio alginolyticus. Kobayashi et al., 1997, also have reported the use of Bacillus chitinase for the production of ulcerative colitis and other
There are some fungal species for cellulosic biomass hydrolysation have been reported which Chaetomium, Fusarium Myrothecium, Trichoderma, Penicillium, Aspergillus, and so forth. The abundance of aerobic bacterial species include Trichonympha, Clostridium, Actinomycetes, Bacteroides succinogenes, Cellulomonas, Bacillus, Pseudomonas, Cytophaga, Ruminococcus albus and Methanobrevibacter ruminantium has long been well recognised due to the importance of cellulose decomposition (Gupta et al., 2011; Wirth & Ulrich, 2002). However, among the aerobic bacteria, the best studied of cellulolytic bacteria species are from the genera Cellulomonas. Lakhundi et al., 2015, have been reported that Cellulomonas are Gram positive, non-spore forming, facultative anaerobic actinomycete that belongs to the Coryneform group of