Current advances in the biodegradation and bioconversion of polyethylene terephthalate

X Qi, W Yan, Z Cao, M Ding, Y Yuan - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a widely used plastic that is polymerized by terephthalic …
biodegradation and bioconversion have become important in solving environmental plastic

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the chemobiological upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into value-added chemicals

J Mudondo, HS Lee, Y Jeong, TH Kim… - … of Microbiology and …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a plastic material … for bioconversion, through various
degradation processes, … degradation methods that yield substrates for bioconversion and …

Recent advances in biological recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic wastes

YHV Soong, MJ Sobkowicz, D Xie - Bioengineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
… processes, the biotechnological recycling of PET involves enzymatic degradation of the
waste PET and the followed bioconversion of degraded PET monomers into value-added …

[PDF][PDF] Review on efficacy of microbial degradation of polyethylene terephthalate and bio-upcycling as a part of plastic waste management

MD Salam, A Varma, R Prashar… - Appl. Ecol. Environ …, 2021 - researchgate.net
… on a thermostable polyethylene terephthalate degrading … increases the degradation of
polyethylene terephthalate films … the biocatalytic degradation of polyethylene terephthalate films. …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in biocatalysts engineering for polyethylene terephthalate plastic waste green recycling

NA Samak, Y Jia, MM Sharshar, T Mu, M Yang… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
… avenue for PET bioconversion and recycling. … plastic degradation biocatalysts, including
the biotechnological processes that have been applied for enhancing plastic waste degradation, …

Engineering microbes to bio-upcycle polyethylene terephthalate

L Dissanayake, LN Jayakody - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… Although plastic is less prone to biodegradability, it can be partially fragmented to … A
recent study demonstrated that the hybrid, enzymatic hydrolysis and microbial bioconversion

The Ability of Ascomycetes to Transform Polyethylene Terephthalate

NN Pozdnyakova, AM Burov, EA Antonov… - Applied Biochemistry …, 2023 - Springer
… Fusarium oxysporum to use polyethylene terephthalate (PET) … of degradation/conversion
of plastics in natural ecosystems. … harzianum during polyethylene degradation was described …

Thermophilic whole‐cell degradation of polyethylene terephthalate using engineered Clostridium thermocellum

F Yan, R Wei, Q Cui, UT Bornscheuer… - Microbial …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… TPA and EG as monomer degradation products (Wei & … the amorphous copolymer
polyethylene terephthalate glycol (… ) analysis towards the aromatic degradation products. When …

Biodegradability and current status of polyethylene terephthalate

AE Amobonye, CE Aruwa, S Pillai - Biodegradability of Conventional …, 2023 - Elsevier
… have been shown to play major roles in this bioconversion, which involves PET degradation
to its monomeric products (EG and TPA). These monomers were subsequently used as …

Accelerated biodegradation of polyethylene terephthalate by Thermobifida fusca cutinase mediated by Stenotrophomonas pavanii

QS Huang, ZF Yan, XQ Chen, YY Du, J Li, ZZ Liu… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a general plastic that produces a … degradation by
Thermobifida fusca cutinase (TfC), generating useful insights for accelerating PET biodegradation. …