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US 2023/0016674 A1Published application
Method for obtaining chitin and/or chitosan using two enzymatic hydrolyses
AssigneeYnsect
InventorsLorena SANCHEZ, Valère HUSSET, Adam KIRECHE
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for obtaining chitin and/or chitosan from insect cuticles. More particularly, the method according to the present invention comprises a first enzymatic hydrolysis of insect cuticles using at least one endopeptidase, separation from the hydrolysis medium of the hydrolyzed cuticles resulting from the first enzymatic hydrolysis, and a second enzymatic hydrolysis of the hydrolyzed cuticles using at least one endopeptidase, excluding exopeptidase.
Claims10
Method for obtaining chitin from insect cuticles comprising:
- performing a first enzymatic hydrolysis of insect cuticles using at least one endopeptidase,
- separating the hydrolyzed cuticles resulting from the first enzymatic hydrolysis, from the hydrolysis medium,
- performing a second enzymatic hydrolysis of the hydrolyzed cuticles using at least one endopeptidase, excluding exopeptidase.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.