Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Lipids > Polyhydroxyalkanoates
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Biopolymers > Polyhydroxyalkanoates
... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Biopolymers > Polyhydroxyalkanoates
Macromolecular Substances > Polymers > Biopolymers > Polyhydroxyalkanoates
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Polyesters > Polyhydroxyalkanoates
... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Polyesters > Polyhydroxyalkanoates
Macromolecular Substances > Polymers > Polyesters > Polyhydroxyalkanoates

Preferred term

Polyhydroxyalkanoates  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Poly(hydroxyalkanoate)
  • Polyhydroxyalkanoate
  • Poly(hydroxyalkanoates)

Scope note

  • Biodegradable microbial polyesters which contain hydroxyacyl monomers. Polyhydroxyalkanoates are carbon and energy reserve materials produced and sequestered in cytoplasmic granules called polyhydroxyalkanoate or PHA granules by various archaea and bacteria and may additionally provide protective mechanism to the microbes. They are biosynthesized by microbial polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase enzymes using fatty acids or citramalate synthase enzymes using glucose.

History note

  • 2008

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054813

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 7/9/07, last modified 4/13/22