Production method of polyhydroxyalkanoate from substituted fatty acid ester as raw material

摘要

Polyhydroxyalkanoates comprising a monomer unit having the following chemical formula (2): <CHEM> (where the reference characters R represents an arbitrarily selected substituent and x represents an integer of 0 to 8) is produced by culturing a microorganism in a culture medium containing a substituted fatty acid ester having the following chemical formula (1): <CHEM> (where the reference characters R and R' separately denote an optional substituent and x represents an integer of 0 to 8). The microorganism is capable of taking the substituted fatty acid ester into the cells and synthesizing the desired polyhydroxyalkanoate in the culture medium.