Dual extraction of crustacean and fungal chitosan from a single Mucor circinelloides fermentation

• Main Authors: Tan, Yun Nian, Lee, Pei Pei, Chen, Wei Ning
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Bioengineering; Chitin; Chitosan
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145460
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Mucor circinelloides is a fungus that has been reported to produce ethanol, oil, protein, phosphate and glucosamine, depending on the available nutrients and cultivation conditions. Due to its ability to produce extracellular proteases, it is able to ferment polypeptides and amino acids broken down...