The chemomechanical properties of microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates

B Laycock, P Halley, S Pratt, A Werker, P Lant - Progress in polymer …, 2013 - Elsevier
Microbially produced polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are fully biodegradable biopolyesters
that have attracted much attention recently as alternative polymeric materials that can be …

New insights in the formation of polyhydroxyalkanoate granules (carbonosomes) and novel functions of poly (3‐hydroxybutyrate)

D Jendrossek, D Pfeiffer - Environmental microbiology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The metabolism of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) and related polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs)
has been investigated by many groups for about three decades, and good progress was …

Preparing samples from whole cells using focused-ion-beam milling for cryo-electron tomography

FR Wagner, R Watanabe, R Schampers, D Singh… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Recent advances have made cryogenic (cryo) electron microscopy a key technique to
achieve near-atomic-resolution structures of biochemically isolated macromolecular …

Structural insights into polyhydroxyalkanoates biosynthesis

HY Sagong, HF Son, SY Choi, SY Lee… - Trends in biochemical …, 2018 - cell.com
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are diverse biopolyesters produced by numerous
microorganisms and have attracted much attention as a substitute for petroleum-based …

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) granules have no phospholipids

S Bresan, A Sznajder, W Hauf, K Forchhammer… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) granules, also designated as carbonosomes, are supra-
molecular complexes in prokaryotes consisting of a PHB polymer core and a surface layer of …

Synthetic biology on acetogenic bacteria for highly efficient conversion of C1 gases to biochemicals

S Jin, J Bae, Y Song, N Pearcy, J Shin, S Kang… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Synthesis gas, which is mainly produced from fossil fuels or biomass gasification, consists of
C1 gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methane as well as hydrogen …

A new view into prokaryotic cell biology from electron cryotomography

CM Oikonomou, YW Chang, GJ Jensen - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Electron cryotomography (ECT) enables intact cells to be visualized in 3D in an essentially
native state to'macromolecular'(∼ 4 nm) resolution, revealing the basic architectures of …

Growth associated polyhydroxybutyrate production by the novel Zobellellae tiwanensis strain DD5 from banana peels under submerged fermentation

S Maity, S Das, S Mohapatra, AD Tripathi… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In view of environmental pollution by fossil fuel-based plastics, it has become imperative to
find out an alternative biodegradable plastic for sustainability. In this context, polyhydroxy …

Computational methods for electron tomography

JJ Fernandez - Micron, 2012 - Elsevier
Electron tomography (ET) has emerged as a powerful technique to address fundamental
questions in molecular and cellular biology. It makes possible visualization of the molecular …

Anaerobic production of poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) and its precursor 3-hydroxybutyrate from synthesis gas by autotrophic clostridia

S Flüchter, S Follonier, B Schiel-Bengelsdorf… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Anaerobic production of the biopolymer poly (3-hydroxybutyrate)(PHB) and the monomer 3-
hydroxybutyrate (3-HB) was achieved using recombinant clostridial acetogens supplied with …