polyhydroxyalkanoic

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ hydroxyalkanoic.

Adjective

polyhydroxyalkanoic (not comparable)

1. (organic chemistry) Describing an alkanoic acid that has multiple hydroxy substituents
   • 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^[1], volume 14, →DOI:

     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 .