Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a widely used synthetic polymer and known to
contaminate marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Only few PET‐active microorganisms and …

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most important synthetic polymers used
today. Unfortunately, the polymers accumulate in nature and to date no highly active …

Certain members of the Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria are known to degrade
polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Here, we describe the first functional PET-active enzymes …

Several plastic degrading enzymes have been described in the literature, most notably
PETases that are capable of hydrolyzing polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic. One of …

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a commodity polymer known to globally contaminate
marine and terrestrial environments. Today, around 80 bacterial and fungal PET-active …

Plastics are extensively used in our daily life, but they are also a major pollutant of our
biosphere accumulating in both the ocean and the land. In the recent years, few enzymes …

The discovery and engineering of new plastic degrading enzymes is an important challenge
in chemical biotechnology to enable transition to a more sustainable and circular plastics …

A thermostable enzyme PET2, found in a metagenome library, has been engineered to
improve its hydrolytic activity against polyethylene terephthalate (PET). The PET2 wild-type …

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a major component of microplastic contamination
globally, which is now detected in pristine environments including Polar and mountain …

We report a bioinformatic workflow and subsequent discovery of a new polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) hydrolase, which we named MG8, from the human saliva metagenome …