Structural and chemical properties of insects' chitin-containing extracellular matrices
Mario Wegmann, Marius Beck, Stefan Cord‐Landwehr, Bruno Maria Moerschbacher, Ernesto Scopolla, Carolin Fischer, Luca Bertinetti, Yael Politi, Hans Merzendorfer
The paper investigates the structural and chemical properties of chitin in insect extracellular matrices, finding that PM chitin is highly acetylated and organized as dihydrate β-chitin, while cuticle chitin is deacetylated and structured as α-chitin.
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · Jun 5, 2026Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology