Alcoholytic cleavage of polyhydroxyalkanoate chains by Class IV synthases induced by Endogenous and exogenous ethanol

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1421-1429

  Hyakutake, Manami ^a   Tomizawa, Satoshi ^a,b   Mizuno, Kouhei ^c   Abe, Hideki ^a,b   Tsuge, Takeharu ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^c KITAKYUSHU NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT REDUCTIONS; POLY-HYDROXYALKANOATE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; RECOMBINANT ESCHERICHIA COLI; SCISSION REACTIONS; STATIONARY PHASE;

BACTERIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; STRAIN;

CHAINS;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHANOL; GROWTH RATE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RECOMBINATION;

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; POLY(3-HYDROXYALKANOIC ACID) SYNTHASE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOL; HYDROLYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84893346109     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03576-13     Document Type: Article

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