Chitin

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2003 Chitin Chitin is the second most abundant polysaccharide in nature (after cellulose).
Fortunately for survival of aquatic ecosystems, chitin is rapidly catabolized by marine bacteria.
The chitin is rigid except between some body segments and joints where it is thin and allows movement of adjacent parts.
Synthase III-dependent chitin is bound to different acceptors depending on location on the cell wall of budding yeast.
Chitin is comprised of glucosamine and acetylglucosamine (see structure, below), often in chains of several hundred units.

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