In the Red Sea, two neighboring deep-sea brine pools, Atlantis II and Discovery, have been studied extensively and the results have shown that the temperature and concentrations of metal and methane in Atlantis II have increased over the past decades. Therefore, we investigated changes in the mi...
earthandisalinearpolymerof N-acetyl-D-glucosamineresidues.Itisfound onthecellsurfaceoffungalcellwallsandisa componentofarthropodinteguments.Some oftheGlcNAcresiduesinchitinaredeacety- latedinitsnaturalform[1].Chitinasesare glycosylhydrolaseswhichhydrolysetheN- acetyl-b-D-glucosaminidebondsofchitinand its...