Publication detail

Inspection of PHB accumulation in cyanobacteria via spectral flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy

ŠEDRLOVÁ, Z. SLANINOVÁ, E. DRINKA, J. MRAVEC, F. FRITZ, I. OBRUČA, S.

Original Title

Inspection of PHB accumulation in cyanobacteria via spectral flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy

Type

abstract

Language

English

Original Abstract

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are microbial biopolymers and occur as an intracellular granules. PHA are biodegradable biopolymers with similar properties as petrochemical synthetic plastics. PHA production is financially demanding, for reducing the production cost the waste materials are being used as an input material. Cyanobacteria are ecologically extremely important phototrophic gram-negative bacteria capable of oxygenic photosynthesis. Thus cyanobacteria don‘t demand carbon source and for PHA synthesis they need only CO2 and light source. They synthesize many interesting metabolites such as glycogen, carotenoids, but the most interesting metabolites in are PHA. PHA primarily serve together with glycogen as a storage compounds and probably helps cyanobacteria to survive the stress conditions.

Keywords

polyhydroxyalkanoates, flow cytometry, cyanobacteria

Authors

ŠEDRLOVÁ, Z.; SLANINOVÁ, E.; DRINKA, J.; MRAVEC, F.; FRITZ, I.; OBRUČA, S.

Released

25. 2. 2021

ISBN

1314-3530

Periodical

Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment

Year of study

1

Number

35

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

BibTex

@misc{BUT169870,
  author="ŠEDRLOVÁ, Z. and SLANINOVÁ, E. and DRINKA, J. and MRAVEC, F. and FRITZ, I. and OBRUČA, S.",
  title="Inspection of PHB accumulation in cyanobacteria via spectral flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy",
  year="2021",
  journal="Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment",
  volume="1",
  number="35",
  issn="1314-3530",
  note="abstract"
}