Chitin metabolism in insects: structure, function and regulation of chitin synthases and chitinases

By H. Merzendorfer, L. Zimoch. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2003

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Bioprospecting and antifungal potential of chitinolytic microorganisms (2006, background): “(1985); Merzendorfer and Zimoch (2003).”
Isotopic reconstruction of marine food webs using cephalopod beaks: new insight from captively raised Sepia officinalis (2006, background): “According to Hunt and Nixon (1981), cephalopod beaks contain both protein (~90%) and chitin (~10%), a polymer of N-acetyl-b-D-glucosamine (Merzendorfer and Zimoch 2003).”
Chitin and Chitosan: Production and Application of Versatile Biomedical Nanomaterials (2016, background): “The individual sugar units in its structure are rotated 180° with respect to each other, and each pair forms the disaccharide N,N′-diacetylchitobiose [(GlcNAc)2 (33, 43, 44).”
Fungal chitinases and their biological role in the antagonism onto nematode eggs. A review (2008, background): “They mainly differ in the degree of hydration, in the size of the unit cell, and in the number of chitin chains per unit cell (Merzendorfer and Zimoch 2003).”