polyhydroxyalkanoic

adjective

Describing an alkanoic acid that has multiple hydroxy substituents

Scrabble 47

Meanings

adjectivepolyhydroxyalkanoic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablechemistryDescribing an alkanoic acid that has multiple hydroxy substituents
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    To exclude a possible unspecific gene deletion that could lead to an absence of PHB production, cells of strain GHH3 were transformed with plasmid pSMF3_RBCP (Additional file 1 : Figure S5), encoding the genes of the PHB-synthesis operon: PHA polymerase subunit phaR, acetoacetyl-CoA reductase phaB, polyhydroxyalkanoic acid inclusion protein phaP and the genomically deleted gene phaC .

    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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