Degradation of PET plastic with engineered environmental bacteria
Alice M. Banks, Umar Abdulmutalib, Christian Sonnendecker, Juhyun Kim, Charlotte Bosomworth, Stuart Brown, Ren Wei, Carolina Alvarez‐Ortega, Pablo J. Pomposiello, Claudio A. Avignone-Rossa, Gerald J Larrouy-Maumus, Wolfgang Zimmermann, José Ignacio Jiménez
This paper engineers environmental bacteria to degrade PET plastic by enhancing PET bioavailability and secreting a high-activity hydrolase.
bioRxiv · Sep 24, 2024 · PreprintSynthetic Biology