This product is a high purity standard that is useful for the investigation of disorders and diseases. Polyhydroxyalkenoates, polyesters produced by bacteria fermentation, are used for carbon and energy storage and are of interest in studies regarding their synthesis, properties and mechanisms. Medium chain-length polyhydroxyalkenoate monomers such as 3- hydroxyhexadecanoic acid may have pharmaceutical properties. The biologically natural chiral (R)-3-hydroxyhexcadecanoic acid is an intermediate in fatty acid biosynthesis. It has been suggested that the methyl ester of 3-hydroxyhexadecanoic acid is an intercellular signal that autoregulates virulence gene expression1 and that it modulates production of PhcA-regulated virulence factors in Ralstonia (Pseudomonas) solanacearum. 3-Hydroxy fatty acids have been found to be converted to the omega-fatty acid by the enzyme CYP4F11 and then into dicarboxylic acids in vivo.2 3-hydroxy fatty acids are used as biomarkers for fatty acid oxidative disorders of both the long- and short-chain 3-hydroxy-acyl-CoA dehydrogenases.3,4
