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US 6,485,946 B1Granted
Production of chitosan and chitin
AssigneeFood Industry Research and Development Institute
InventorsMei-Huei Chen, Hing-Yuen Chan, Chih-Lu Wu, Su-Hui Chuang, Ing-Er Hwang, Yen-Lin Chen, Gwo-Fang Yuan
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of producing chitin or chitosan by culturing a Rhizopus azygosporus fungus or an Actinomucor taiwanensis fungus and isolating chitosan or chitin from the culture.
Claims4
A method of producing chitosan or chitin, the method comprising
- culturing a fungus of the family Mucoraceae in a medium to form a culture, the medium comprising about 5 to 60 g/L corn steep liquor, about 10-100 g/L glucose, and about 0.01 to 30 g/L ammonium sulfate;
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- isolating chitosan or chitin from the fungal culture.
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