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hydroxyalkanoic

hydroxyalkanoic adjective: describing alkanoic acids that have one of more hydroxy substituents.

Adjective

hydroxyalkanoic (not comparable)

  1. Describing 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...

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Questions about hydroxyalkanoic

What does hydroxyalkanoic mean?
Hydroxyalkanoic means describing alkanoic acids that have one of more hydroxy substituents.
What part of speech is hydroxyalkanoic?
Hydroxyalkanoic is an adjective.

Words near hydroxyalkanoic in the dictionary

  1. hydroxyakuammicine
  2. hydroxyaldehyde
  3. hydroxyaldehydes
  4. hydroxyalkanoate
  5. hydroxyalkanoates
  6. hydroxyalkanoic
  7. hydroxyalkenal
  8. hydroxyalkenals
  9. hydroxyalkyl
  10. hydroxyalkylation
  11. hydroxyalkylations

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