几丁质酶的分子生物学特性及其在转基因植物中的应用

Molecular biology characterization and applicationin transgenic plant for chitinase

几丁质酶及其底物几丁质均广泛存在于自然界。由于几丁质酶及其降解产物在生物学、医学、化学、农业及环境科学等方面潜在的价值越来越受到重视，对酶的基础理论和应用研究已逐步深入。作者综合论述了近年来几丁质酶在分子结构、同源性等方面的研究进展，以及在抗病害基因工程中的发现与应用，并对其进一步的研究提出展望。

Chitinase and its substrate (chitin) universally exist in nature. With the great atten-tion to the potential value of chitinase and its degradation product in biology, medicine science,chemistry, agriculture and environmental science and so on, the research of enzyme has gone deepinto step by step. In this paper, we reviewed advances in research of basal theory and applicationof chitinase from following aspects: structure, homology, genetic engineering of disease resistance,etc. and put forward the prospect of its further research.