Polyhydroxyalkanoic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Polyhydroxyalkanoic is an adjective meaning (organic chemistry) Describing an alkanoic acid that has multiple hydroxy substituents.
Meaning
(organic chemistry) Describing an alkanoic acid that has multiple hydroxy substituents.
Example Sentences
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 .
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hydroxyalkanoic, polyhydroxy, polyhydroxylated, polyalkenoic, hydrocarboxylic, hydroxycarboxylic.
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