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Record Nr.

UNINA9910688468303321

Titolo

Advances in Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production / / edited by Martin Koller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2017

ISBN

3-03842-636-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 pages)

Disciplina

620.192323

Soggetti

Biodegradable plastics

Poly-beta-hydroxyalkanoates

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

About the Special Issue Editor -- Preface to "Advances in Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production" -- Martin Koller Advances in Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(4), 88; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4040088 -- Constantina Kourmentza, Jersson Placido, Nikolaos Venetsaneas, Anna Burniol-Figols, Cristiano Varrone, Hariklia N. Gavala and Maria A. M. Reis Recent Advances and Challenges towards Sustainable Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production -- Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(2), 55; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4020055 -- Rodrigo Yoji Uwamori Takahashi, Nathalia Aparecida Santos Castilho, Marcus Adonai Castro da Silva, Maria Cecilia Miotto and Andre Oliveira de Souza Lima Prospecting for Marine Bacteria for Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production on Low-Cost Substrates Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(3), 60; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4030060 -- Sourish Bhattacharya, Sonam Dubey, Priyanka Singh, Anupama Shrivastava and Sandhya Mishra Biodegradable Polymeric Substances Produced by a Marine Bacterium from a Surplus Stream of the Biodiesel Industry Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2016, 3(4), 34; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering3040034 -- Bhakti B. Salgaonkar and Judith M. Braganc¸a Utilization of Sugarcane Bagasse by Halogeometricum borinquense Strain E3 for Biosynthesis of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(2), 50; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4020050 -- Dan Kucera, Pavla Benesova, Peter Ladicky,



Miloslav Pekar, Petr Sedlacek and Stanislav Obruca Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoates Using Hydrolyzates of Spruce Sawdust: Comparison of Hydrolyzates Detoxification by Application of Overliming, Active Carbon, and Lignite Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(2), 53; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4020053 -- Ayaka Hokamura, Yuko Yunoue, Saki Goto and Hiromi Matsusaki Biosynthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoate from Steamed Soybean Wastewater by a Recombinant Strain of Pseudomonas sp. 61-3 Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(3), 68; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4030068 -- Brian Johnston, Guozhan Jiang, David Hill, Grazyna Adamus, Iwona Kwiecien, Magdalena Zie?ba, Wanda Sikorska, Matthew Green, Marek Kowalczuk and Iza Radecka The Molecular Level Characterization of Biodegradable Polymers Originated from Polyethylene Using Non-Oxygenated Polyethylene Wax as a Carbon Source for Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(3), 73; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4030073 -- Stephanie Karmann, Sven Panke and Manfred Zinn The Bistable Behaviour of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 during PHA Depolymerization under Carbon Limitation Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(2), 58; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4020058 -- Liliana Montano-Herrera, Bronwyn Laycock, Alan Werker and Steven Pratt The Evolution of Polymer Composition during PHA Accumulation: The Significance of Reducing Equivalents Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(1), 20; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4010020 -- Eduarda Morgana da Silva Montenegro, Gabriela Scholante Delabary, Marcus Adonai Castro da Silva, Fernando Dini Andreote and Andre Oliveira de Souza Lima Molecular Diagnostic for Prospecting Polyhydroxyalkanoate-Producing Bacteria Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(2), 52; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4020052 -- Clemens Troschl, Katharina Meixner and Bernhard Drosg Cyanobacterial PHA Production-Review of Recent Advances and a Summary of Three Years' Working Experience Running a Pilot Plant Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(2), 26; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4020026 -- Timo Pittmann and Heidrun Steinmetz Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production on Waste Water Treatment Plants: Process Scheme, Operating Conditions and Potential Analysis for German and European Municipal Waste Water Treatment Plants Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(2), 54; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4020054 -- Miguel Miranda De Sousa Dias, Martin Koller, Dario Puppi, Andrea Morelli, Federica Chiellini and Gerhart Braunegg Fed-Batch Synthesis of Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) and Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate-co-4-Hydroxybutyrate) from Sucrose and 4-Hydroxybutyrate Precursors by Burkholderia sacchari Strain DSM 17165 Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(2), 36; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4020036 -- Dario Puppi, Andrea Morelli and Federica Chiellini Additive Manufacturing of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate)/poly(e-caprolactone) Blend Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Reprinted from: Bioengineering 2017, 4(2), 49; doi: 10.3390/bioengineering4020049.

Sommario/riassunto

Currently, we are witnessing highly dynamic research efforts related to the exciting field of novel biodegradable plastic-like materials. These activities originate from a growing public awareness of prevailing ecological problems associated to, e.g., rising piles of plastic waste, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and ongoing depletion of such fossil resources usually used for the synthesis of "full carbon backbone" plastics. Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolyesters, a family of versatile plastic-like materials produced by living microbes, are a future-oriented alternative to traditional plastics. If accomplished in an optimized way, production and the entire lifecycle of PHA are



embedded into nature´s closed carbon cycle, which is underlined by PHA´s main benefits of being "biobased", "biosynthesized", "biocompatible", and "biodegradable". Sustainable and economically feasible PHA synthesis, especially on an industrially relevant scale, requires all production steps to be understood and improved. Among other aspects, this calls for new powerful production strains to be screened; knowledge about the proteome and genome of PHA accumulating organisms to be consolidated; the kinetics of the bioprocesses to be thoroughly understood; abundantly available inexpensive raw materials to be tested; the monomer composition of PHA to be adapted; (bio)chemical engineering to be optimized; and novel PHA recovery strategies to be developed in order to reduce energy and chemical inventory. The present book provides a comprehensive compilation of articles addressing all these different aspects; the individual chapters were composed by globally recognized front running experts from special niches of PHA research. We are convinced that this book will be of major benefit to the growing scientific community active in biopolymer research.