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Physical Properties of Poly(β-hydroxy butyrate). II. Conformational Aspects in Solution
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This article is published in Macromolecules.The article was published on 1970-11-01. It has received 113 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Butyrate.read more
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Occurrence, metabolism, metabolic role, and industrial uses of bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates.
A J Anderson,E A Dawes +1 more
TL;DR: The physiological functions of PHB as a reserve material and in symbiotic nitrogen fixation and its presence in bacterial plasma membranes and putative role in transformability and calcium signaling are also considered.
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The Role and Regulation of Energy Reserve Polymers in Micro-organisms
Edwin A. Dawes,P. J. Senior +1 more
TL;DR: The chapter considers the evidence for the energy-storage roles of glycogen, polyphosphates and poly-p-hydroxybutyrate, and the current state of knowledge concerning the regulation of their biosynthesis and degradation in the microbial cell.
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Tissue response and in vivo degradation of selected polyhydroxyacids: Polylactides (PLA), poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB), and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHB/VA)†
TL;DR: Several samples showed pronounced bimodal molecular weight distributions (MWD), which may be due to differences in degradation rate, resulting from variability in distribution of crystalline and amorphous regions within the samples, i.e., nonenzymatic and enzymatic, which are involved in the degradation process.
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Metabolic engineering and pathway construction for biotechnological production of relevant polyhydroxyalkanoates in microorganisms
TL;DR: This review will focus on the engineering of pathways resulting in the formation of PHAs containing 3-hydroxyvaleric acid, medium-chain-length 3-Hydroxyalkanoic acids or 4-hydroxbutyric acid as constituents.
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Biosynthetic polyhydroxyalkanoates and their potential in drug delivery
Colin W. Pouton,Saghir Akhtar +1 more
TL;DR: The applications of these materials in drug delivery are likely to depend on the formulation of suitable blends with other biocompatible polymers, and there is considerable potential for design and bioengineering of other PHAs for applications indrug delivery.