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Record W2051462793 · doi:10.2741/3609

Activation of polyhydroxyalkanoates: functionalization and modification

2009· review· en· W2051462793 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in bioscience · 2009
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
Topicbiodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
Canadian institutionsBiotechnology Research Institute
FundersNational Research Council CanadaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsPolyhydroxyalkanoatesSurface modificationBiocompatibilityChemistryPolyesterBiodegradationBacteriaChemical modificationBiochemistryOrganic chemistryBiology

Abstract

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Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) serve numerous bacteria as storage compounds. It is generally believed that under unbalanced growth conditions, n-hydroxyalkanoates are synthesized inside the bacterial cells, polymerized to polyesters, and densely packed in granules. In the absence of extracellular carbon, the internally stored PHAs are depolymerized and consequently metabolized to enable cell maintenance and reproduction. However, some bacteria exhibit growth associated production and degradation of PHAs as part of the cell sustainment. This natural production and degradation cycle indicates that PHAs possess biodegradability and may have biocompatibility properties. Since the discovery that some bacteria can incorporate 3-hydroxyalkanoates bearing functional groups from related substrates, research has led to structural diversification of PHAs by biosynthesis and chemical modifications. A commonly applied route for tailoring PHAs is their in situ functionalization by biosynthetically producing side chains with terminal double bonds followed by chemistry. Non-functionalized PHAs can also be activated by surface modification techniques. The resulting tailor-made structural and material properties have positioned polyhydroxyalkanoates well to contribute to the manufacturing of second and third generation biomaterials.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.996
Threshold uncertainty score0.597

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.052
GPT teacher head0.277
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it