hydroxyalkanoic

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adjective

Describing alkanoic acids that have one of more hydroxy substituents

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Meanings

adjectivehydroxyalkanoic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablechemistryDescribing alkanoic acids that have one of more hydroxy substituents

    It accepts coenzyme A thioesters of hydroxyalkanoic acids (HA) as substrates and catalyzes the polymerization of HAs into PHA while simultaneously releasing CoA.

    2015 July 29, Adrian Gerber et al., “Functionalized PHB granules provide the basis for the efficient side-chain cleavage of cholesterol and analogs in recombinant Bacillus megaterium”, in Microbial Cell Factories, volume 14, →DOI
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