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polyhydroxyalkanoic

polyhydroxyalkanoic adjective: describing an alkanoic acid that has multiple hydroxy substituents.

Adjective

polyhydroxyalkanoic (not comparable)

  1. Describing an alkanoic acid that has multiple hydroxy substituents
    • 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...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...

Origin of polyhydroxyalkanoic

From poly- + hydroxyalkanoic.

Questions about polyhydroxyalkanoic

What does polyhydroxyalkanoic mean?
Polyhydroxyalkanoic means describing an alkanoic acid that has multiple hydroxy substituents.
What part of speech is polyhydroxyalkanoic?
Polyhydroxyalkanoic is an adjective.

Words near polyhydroxyalkanoic in the dictionary

  1. polyhydrocarbons
  2. polyhydrogenated
  3. polyhydroxy
  4. polyhydroxyalkanoate
  5. polyhydroxyalkanoates
  6. polyhydroxyalkanoic
  7. polyhydroxybutyrate
  8. polyhydroxybutyrates
  9. polyhydroxyethylmethacrylate
  10. polyhydroxyethylmethacrylates
  11. polyhydroxylated

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