Abstract
The molting fluid of the tobacco hornworm has chitinase activity which shows allosteric behavior with chitin. A parabolic curve is obtained on a double reciprocal plot of 1 v vs. 1 [S] , and a sigmoid curve results when v (N-acetylglucosamine produced) is plotted against [S] (chitin concentration in terms of N-acetylglucosamine concentration). The Hill coefficient with insect chitin is 1.95 ± 0.08. Allostery of the chitinase enables the insect to exert additional control over the integrity of structure of its cuticle.
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