Chitinase Efficacy on Powdered Chitin from Mangrove-Derived Fungi

Mangrove wetland-derived Penicillium oxalicum chitinases were characterized for hydrolyzing chitin substrates. The enzyme mixture achieved approximately 70% hydrolysis of powdered chitin within 2 hours at 65°C under scale-up conditions in 50 L batch reactors. The dataset, authored by Biaoshi Wang and last updated in March 2026, documents this process and its results.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking enzymatic hydrolysis performance based on the reported 70% conversion rate for powdered chitin.
• Modeling industrial-scale bioconversion processes based on the 40 L working volume reactor data.
• Comparing chitinase efficacy on different substrates based on the GlcNAc productivity comparison between powdered and colloidal chitin.
• Assessing the sustainability of chitin valorization pathways based on the described pretreatment-free, green process.

Strengths

• Includes specific performance metrics, such as approximately 70% hydrolysis within 2 hours.
• Describes scale-up conditions with a 40 L working volume in 50 L batch reactors.
• Provides a quantitative comparison, noting GlcNAc productivity for powdered chitin was approximately 80% of that for colloidal chitin.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small at 18.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Biaoshi Wang.

Collection Method

Likely contains experimental results from characterizing and applying chitinases from mangrove-isolated P. oxalicum.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 06:42:32; freshness should be verified.

Geography

The source organism was isolated from a mangrove wetland.