Chitinases: in agriculture and human healthcare
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...Recently published research articles and reviews on human chitinases have implied its role in pathogenesis and as a biomarker [1, 43, 44]....
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...the environment, its degradation has been extensively reviewed with regard to general biochemistry, molecular biology, biogeochemistry, and microbial ecology [8,12,13,14]....
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...It has two major isoforms with isoelectric points of 7.2 and 8.0 and molecular masses of 50 and 39 kDa, respectively, both of them were purified from the spleen of a Gaucher patient (Boot et al., 1995; Hollak et al., 1994; Renkema et al., 1995)....
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...…it has been discovered that chitinases also exist in humans and their role in human diseases has been extensively studied (Bargagli et al., 2007; Boot et al., 1999; Chen et al., 2009; Hollak et al., 1994; Tjoelker, 2000; Vazquez-Torres & Balish, 1997; Vicencio et al., 2008; Zhu et al., 2004)....
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...…i.e. chito- triosidase (ChT), a chitinolytic enzyme produced by mono- cyte-derived macrophages, was identified as a protein which was highly elevated in the serum of patients with GD (Hollak et al., 1994), a recessively inherited lysosomal storage disorder that leads to lipid-laden macrophages....
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...0 and molecular masses of 50 and 39 kDa, respectively, both of them were purified from the spleen of a Gaucher patient (Boot et al., 1995; Hollak et al., 1994; Renkema et al., 1995)....
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...triosidase (ChT), a chitinolytic enzyme produced by monocyte-derived macrophages, was identified as a protein which was highly elevated in the serum of patients with GD (Hollak et al., 1994), a recessively inherited lysosomal storage disorder that leads to lipid-laden macrophages....
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...Thus, the enzymatic activity of AMCase was suggested to be involved in asthma progression (Zhu et al., 2004)....
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...Thus, the enzymatic activity of AMCase was suggested to be involved in asthma progression (Zhu et al., 2004)....
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...…it has been discovered that chitinases also exist in humans and their role in human diseases has been extensively studied (Bargagli et al., 2007; Boot et al., 1999; Chen et al., 2009; Hollak et al., 1994; Tjoelker, 2000; Vazquez-Torres & Balish, 1997; Vicencio et al., 2008; Zhu et al., 2004)....
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