Recovery of protein, chitin, carotenoids and glycosaminoglycans from Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) processing waste

• Autor(a) principal: Cahú, Thiago Barbosa
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Santos, Suzan Diniz, Mendes, Aline [UNIFESP], Cóordula, Carolina Ribeiro [UNIFESP], Chavante, Suely Ferreira [UNIFESP], Carvalho, Luiz Bezerra de, Nader, Helena Bonciani [UNIFESP], Bezerra, Ranilson de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/34724; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procbio.2011.12.012
• topic: Autolysis; Bioactive molecules; Litopenaeus vannamei; Polysaccharides; Processing waste

Shrimp head waste is a major byproduct of crustacean processing in North-eastern Brazil and represents an interesting source of bioactive molecules. Additionally, its use increases the sustainability of processing fishery products. the present study reports a process developed for recovering bioactive molecules from shrimp heads through autolysis. A protein hydrolysate (120 +/- 0.4 g) formed by a 9% (w/v) solution was recovered and lyophilized from I kg of shrimp heads. Approximately 195 +/- 0.5 mg of carotenoids was recovered as an ethanolic extract. the recovery of chitin and chitosan were 25 +/- 2 g kg(-1) and 17 +/- 4 g kg(-1) wet processing waste, respectively. Chitosans were characterized by C-13 NMR, and FT-IR analysis and exhibited a variable degree of deacetylation (60-80%). Sulfated glycosaminoglycans that exhibited electrophoretic migration similar to mammalian standards were also recovered (79 +/- 2 mg kg(-1) wet processing waste), and their degradation products suggested the presence of C6-sulfated heparan sulfate. These data point to the feasibility of an integrated process for isolating highly bioactive molecules, such as sulfated- and amino-polysaccharides, with a broad spectrum of applications from shrimp processing waste. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.