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Agar plate‐based screening methods for the identification of polyester hydrolysis by Pseudomonas species

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(2019) Gottfried J. Palm et al.   Nature Communications

Efficient Degradation of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) with Thermobifida fusca Cutinase Exhibiting Improved Catalytic Activity Generated using Mutagenesis and Additive-based Approaches

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Active Site Flexibility as a Hallmark for Efficient PET Degradation by I. sakaiensis PETase

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Enzymes as Enhancers for the Biodegradation of Synthetic Polymers in Wastewater

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Protein Crystallography and Site-Direct Mutagenesis Analysis of the Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Hydrolase PETase from Ideonella sakaiensis

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Characterization and engineering of a plastic-degrading aromatic polyesterase

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Structural insight into molecular mechanism of poly(ethylene terephthalate) degradation

(2018) Seongjoon Joo et al.   Nature Communications

Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

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The biotechnological potential of marine bacteria in the novel lineage of Pseudomonas pertucinogena

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New Insights into the Function and Global Distribution of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)-Degrading Bacteria and Enzymes in Marine and Terrestrial Metagenomes

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Structural Dynamics of the PET-Degrading Cutinase-like Enzyme from Saccharomonospora viridis AHK190 in Substrate-Bound States Elucidates the Ca2+-Driven Catalytic Cycle

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Structural and functional characterization of polyethylene terephthalate hydrolase from Ideonella sakaiensis

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Screening and Characterization of Novel Polyesterases from Environmental Metagenomes with High Hydrolytic Activity against Synthetic Polyesters

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Challenges associated with plastic waste disposal and allied microbial routes for its effective degradation: A comprehensive review

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A Middle-Aged Enzyme Still in Its Prime: Recent Advances in the Field of Cutinases

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Hydrolysis of Ionic Phthalic Acid Based Polyesters by Wastewater Microorganisms and Their Enzymes

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Design, Multicomponent Synthesis, and Anticancer Activity of a Focused Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibitor Library with Peptoid-Based Cap Groups

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Structural insight into catalytic mechanism of PET hydrolase

(2017) Xu Han et al.   Nature Communications

Microbial enzymes for the recycling of recalcitrant petroleum-based plastics: how far are we?

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Activity screening of environmental metagenomic libraries reveals novel carboxylesterase families

(2017) Ana Popovic et al.   Scientific Reports

Engineered bacterial polyester hydrolases efficiently degrade polyethylene terephthalate due to relieved product inhibition

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Rational design and diversity-oriented synthesis of peptoid-based selective HDAC6 inhibitors

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Effect of hydrolysis products on the enzymatic degradation of polyethylene terephthalate nanoparticles by a polyester hydrolase from Thermobifida fusca

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A novel Ca2+-activated, thermostabilized polyesterase capable of hydrolyzing polyethylene terephthalate from Saccharomonospora viridis AHK190

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Crystal Structure and Thermodynamic and Kinetic Stability of Metagenome-Derived LC-Cutinase

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Isolation of a Novel Cutinase Homolog with Polyethylene Terephthalate-Degrading Activity from Leaf-Branch Compost by Using a Metagenomic Approach

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Characterization of a new cutinase fromThermobifida albafor PET-surface hydrolysis

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Enzymatic Surface Hydrolysis of PET: Effect of Structural Diversity on Kinetic Properties of Cutinases from Thermobifida

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Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

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Pyrolysis of plastic packaging waste: A comparison of plastic residuals from material recovery facilities with simulated plastic waste

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