The DOI matches its Crossref record.
N-Acetylglucosamine: Production and Applications
Open accessAbstract
N-Acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) is a monosaccharide that usually polymerizes linearly through (1,4)-β-linkages. GlcNAc is the monomeric unit of the polymer chitin, the second most abundant carbohydrate after cellulose. In addition to serving as a component of this homogeneous polysaccharide, GlcNAc is also a basic component of hyaluronic acid and keratin sulfate on the cell surface. In this review, we discuss the industrial production of GlcNAc, using chitin as a substrate, by chemical, enzymatic and biotransformation methods. Also, newly developed methods to obtain GlcNAc using glucose as a substrate in genetically modified microorganisms are introduced. Moreover, GlcNAc has generated interest not only as an underutilized resource but also as a new functional material with high potential in various fields. Here we also take a closer look at the current applications of GlcNAc, and several new and cutting edge approaches in this fascinating area are thoroughly discussed.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Seafood waste: a source for preparation of commercially employable chitin/chitosan materials
Yadav, M., Goswami, P., Paritosh, K., Kumar, M., Pareek, N., & Vivekanand, V. (2019) · Bioresources and Bioprocessing · doi:10.1186/s40643-019-0243-y · Cited by 515
Unraveling of Advances in 3D-Printed Polymer-Based Bone Scaffolds
Xu, Y., Zhang, F., Zhai, W., Cheng, S., Li, J., & Wang, Y. (2022) · Polymers · doi:10.3390/polym14030566 · Cited by 349
Chitinases: in agriculture and human healthcare
Nagpure, A., Choudhary, B., & Gupta, R. K. (2014) · Critical Reviews in Biotechnology · doi:10.3109/07388551.2013.790874 · Cited by 145
An Overview of Chitosan Nanofibers and their Applications in the Drug Delivery Process
AL-Jbour, N. D., Beg, M. D., Gimbun, J., & Alam, A. K. M. M. (2019) · Current Drug Delivery · doi:10.2174/1567201816666190123121425 · Cited by 92
Shen, X., Wang, Y., Ran, L., Liu, R., Sun, X., Hu, L., Xiao, Y., & Chen, F. (2022) · Postharvest Biology and Technology · doi:10.1016/j.postharvbio.2022.111866 · Cited by 40
Metadata
- Authors
- Chen, J.-K., Shen, C.-R., & Liu, C.-L.
- Venue
- Marine Drugs
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2010-09-15
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 2493-2516
- ISSN
- 1660-3397 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2013647096
- Cited by
- 386
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 5.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: N-Acetylglucosamine: Production and Applications. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.3390/md8092493
- The paper
- Chen, J.-K., Shen, C.-R., & Liu, C.-L. (2010). N-Acetylglucosamine: Production and Applications. Marine Drugs. https://doi.org/10.3390/md8092493
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
