Degradation of polyurethane by novel bacterial consortium isolated from soil
By A. Shah, F. Hasan, J. Akhter, A. Hameed, Safia Ahmed. Annals of Microbiology, 2008
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The present study describes the isolation of bacteria from soil with the ability to degrade plastic polyurethane (PU). Bacterial strains attached on the polyurethane film, after soil burial for 6 months, were isolated and identified asBacillus sp. AF8,Pseudomonas sp AF9,Micrococcus sp. 10,Arthrobacter sp. AF11, andCorynebacterium sp. AF12. In plate assay, zones of hydrolysis were visualised around the bacterial colonies on mineral salt agar plates containing polyurethane as a sole carbon source. The results of the Sturm test for degradability showed more CO2 production in the test than in control. The production of esterase was detected in the presence of polyurethane as a substrate. The Scanning Electron Microscopy and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy showed certain changes on the surface of PU film and formation of some new intermediate products after polymer breakdown.
Subfields: Biomaterials, Pollution
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- New insights into the microbial degradation of polyurethanes (2015, background): “55 11 Corynebacterium sp. Soil buried PU samples Activated sludge Shah et al. 2008.”
- Microbial enzymes for the recycling of recalcitrant petroleum‐based plastics: how far are we? (2017, background): “Enzymes degrading polyester PUR from bacteria (Nakajima-Kambe et al., 1995; Howard and Blake, 1998; Stern and Howard, 2000; Howard et al., 2001, 2012b; Schmidt et al., 2017; Shah et al., 2008a) and fungi (Pathirana and Seal, 1984a,b; Crabbe et al., 1994; Russell et al., 2011) have been described.”