Methods of making polyhydroxyalkanoate using biosynthesis genes from alcaligenes latus

摘要

There are described methods for making polyhydroxyalkanoate and its copolymers, by culturing a host cell transformed with a vector comprising a polyhydroxyalkanoate biosynthesis-related DNA fragment isolated from Alcaligenes latus. The DNA fragment comprises genes that encode for polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase, beta-ketothiolase, and acetoacetyl-CoA reductase.