Tag Archive for 'Ideonella sakaiensis'

Knott et al. created a two-enzyme system for PET deconstruction, which employs one enzyme (PETase) to convert the polymer into soluble intermediates and another enzyme (MHETase) to produce the constituent PET monomers. This SEM image shows amorphous PET film after 96 h enzyme treatment at 30 degrees Celsius. Image credit: Knott et al., doi: 10.1073/pnas.2006753117.

Researchers Create Plastic-Degrading Enzyme Cocktail

Sep 29, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

In 2018, University of Portsmouth’s Professor John McGeehan and colleagues engineered an enzyme that can digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the...

Electron microscope image of enzyme degrading PET plastic. Image credit: Dennis Schroeder / U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Researchers Create Plastic-Degrading Enzyme

Apr 18, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from the United States, UK and Brazil has engineered an enzyme which can digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET),...

Ideonella sakaiensis. Image credit: Shosuke Yoshida et al.

Ideonella sakaiensis: Newly-Discovered Bacterium Can Break Down, Metabolize Plastic

Mar 11, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

According to a group of biologists in Japan, the newfound species — named Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 — breaks down the plastic by using two...