Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for plastics depolymerization

Decomposition of PET film by MHETase using Exo-PETase function

(2020) Hye-Young Sagong et al.   ACS Catalysis

Rational Protein Engineering of Thermo-Stable PETase from Ideonella sakaiensis for Highly Efficient PET Degradation

(2019) Hyeoncheol Francis Son et al.   ACS Catalysis

Biodegradation of PET: Current Status and Application Aspects

(2019) Ikuo Taniguchi et al.   ACS Catalysis

Author Correction: Atmospheric transport and deposition of microplastics in a remote mountain catchment

(2019) Steve Allen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Structure of the plastic-degrading Ideonella sakaiensis MHETase bound to a substrate

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

Evaluation of biological degradation of polyurethanes

(2019) Audrey Magnin et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

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

(2018) Tobias Fecker et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems

(2018) Anderson Abel de Souza Machado et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

SWISS-MODEL: homology modelling of protein structures and complexes

(2018) Andrew Waterhouse et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Characterization and engineering of a plastic-degrading aromatic polyesterase

(2018) Harry P. Austin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs

(2018) Joleah B. Lamb et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2018) Seongjoon Joo et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2018) Dominik Danso et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Enhanced Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Hydrolase Activity by Protein Engineering

(2018) Yuan Ma et al.   Engineering

Acceleration of Enzymatic Degradation of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) by Surface Coating with Anionic Surfactants

(2018) Makoto Furukawa et al.   ChemSusChem

InterPro in 2019: improving coverage, classification and access to protein sequence annotations

(2018) Alex L Mitchell et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Highly Selective Enzymatic Recovery of Building Blocks from Wool-Cotton-Polyester Textile Waste Blends

(2018) Felice Quartinello et al.   Polymers

Screening of commercial enzymes for poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) hydrolysis and synergy studies on different substrate sources

(2017) Aline Machado de Castro et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Lipase from Candida antarctica (CALB) and cutinase from Humicola insolens act synergistically for PET hydrolysis to terephthalic acid

(2017) Adriano Carniel et al.   PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY

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?

(2017) Ren Wei et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Biocatalysis as a green route for recycling the recalcitrant plastic polyethylene terephthalate

(2017) Ren Wei et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

A dual enzyme system composed of a polyester hydrolase and a carboxylesterase enhances the biocatalytic degradation of polyethylene terephthalate films

(2016) Markus Barth et al.   Biotechnology Journal

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)

(2016) Shosuke Yoshida et al.   SCIENCE

Who's on base? Revealing the catalytic mechanism of inverting family 6 glycoside hydrolases

(2016) Heather B. Mayes et al.   Chemical Science

A dual enzyme system composed of a polyester hydrolase and a carboxylesterase enhances the biocatalytic degradation of polyethylene terephthalate films

(2016) Markus Barth et al.   Biotechnology Journal

Enhanced Cutinase-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Polyethylene Terephthalate by Covalent Fusion to Hydrophobins

(2015) Doris Ribitsch et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fungal Cellulases

(2015) Christina M. Payne et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Biodegradation and Mineralization of Polystyrene by Plastic-Eating Mealworms: Part 2. Role of Gut Microorganisms

(2015) Yu Yang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

How the Same Core Catalytic Machinery Catalyzes 17 Different Reactions: the Serine-Histidine-Aspartate Catalytic Triad of α/β-Hydrolase Fold Enzymes

(2015) Alissa Rauwerdink et al.   ACS Catalysis

Plastic waste as a novel substrate for industrial biotechnology

(2015) Nick Wierckx et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Structural and functional studies on a thermostable polyethylene terephthalate degrading hydrolase from Thermobifida fusca

(2014) Christian Roth et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Evidence of Polyethylene Biodegradation by Bacterial Strains from the Guts of Plastic-Eating Waxworms

(2014) Jun Yang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microbial degradation and deterioration of polyethylene – A review

(2014) Juan-Manuel Restrepo-Flórez et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Plastic debris in the open ocean

(2014) A. Cozar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Crystal structure of a feruloyl esterase belonging to the tannase family: A disulfide bond near a catalytic triad

(2014) Kentaro Suzuki et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

Novel Tripartite Aromatic Acid Transporter Essential for Terephthalate Uptake in Comamonas sp. Strain E6

(2013) Masaru Hosaka et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fusion of Binding Domains to Thermobifida cellulosilytica Cutinase to Tune Sorption Characteristics and Enhancing PET Hydrolysis

(2013) Doris Ribitsch et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

The Mechanism of Cellulose Hydrolysis by a Two-Step, Retaining Cellobiohydrolase Elucidated by Structural and Transition Path Sampling Studies

(2013) Brandon C. Knott et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Fusion protein linkers: Property, design and functionality

(2012) Xiaoying Chen et al.   ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS

Parametrization and Benchmark of DFTB3 for Organic Molecules

(2012) Michael Gaus et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Optimization of the Additive CHARMM All-Atom Protein Force Field Targeting Improved Sampling of the Backbone ϕ, ψ and Side-Chain χ1 and χ2 Dihedral Angles

(2012) Robert B. Best et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

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

(2011) Sintawee Sulaiman et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of a new cutinase fromThermobifida albafor PET-surface hydrolysis

(2011) Doris Ribitsch et al.   BIOCATALYSIS AND BIOTRANSFORMATION

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

(2011) Enrique Herrero Acero et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Microbial degradation of aromatic compounds — from one strategy to four

(2011) Georg Fuchs et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of Comamonas thiooxidans sp. nov., and Comparison of Thiosulfate Oxidation with Comamonas testosteroni and Comamonas composti

(2010) Kunwar Digvijay Narayan et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Catalytic Reaction Mechanism of Acetylcholinesterase Determined by Born−Oppenheimer Ab Initio QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Simulations

(2010) Yanzi Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

(2010) K. L. Law et al.   SCIENCE

CHARMM: The biomolecular simulation program

(2009) B. R. Brooks et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

Fundamental Reaction Mechanism and Free Energy Profile for (−)-Cocaine Hydrolysis Catalyzed by Cocaine Esterase

(2009) Junjun Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Cutinase-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Poly(ethylene terephthalate)

(2009) Åsa M. Ronkvist et al.   MACROMOLECULES

The furan counterpart of poly(ethylene terephthalate): An alternative material based on renewable resources

(2008) Alessandro Gandini et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Structural Reorganization and Preorganization in Enzyme Active Sites: Comparisons of Experimental and Theoretically Ideal Active Site Geometries in the Multistep Serine Esterase Reaction Cycle

(2008) Adam J. T. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Towards new enzymes for biofuels: lessons from chitinase research

(2008) Vincent G.H. Eijsink et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The implementation of a fast and accurate QM/MM potential method in Amber

(2007) Ross C. Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY