A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)

By S. Yoshida, K. Hiraga, Toshihiko Takehana, I. Taniguchi, Hironao Yamaji, Y. Maeda, Kiyotsuna Toyohara, K. Miyamoto, Y. Kimura, K. Oda. Science, 2016

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Pollution

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In Biomaterials

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Citations in the corpus

• Microbial Colonization and Degradation of Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystem: A Review (2021, background): “Increased roughness favors the microbial attachment which further modifies the polymer structure (Yoshida et al. 2016; Alshehrei 2017).”
• A Global Perspective on Microplastics (2020, background): “Yoshida et al. (2016) reported that bacteria exposed to polyethylene terephthalate at a recycling site produced enzymes that could degrade it to its constituent monomers.”
• Microbial Enzymes Used in Bioremediation (2021, background): “Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is commonly used in plastic goods around the world, and its concentration in the atmosphere has become a problem [123].”