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Microbial Genes for a Circular and Sustainable Bio-PET Economy.
Review in Genes, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.
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Who cites it
45 citing papers in PubMed, 139 citations in OpenAlex.
- Ancestral hydrocarbon metabolism enables PET degradation by a natural bacterial consortium.mSystems · 2026Article
- Acinetobacter guillouiae, a lipolytic strain isolated from sludge capable of partially depolymerising polyethylene terephthalate: genomic, proteomic, and biochemical insights.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- PFAS and Microplastics: Are Biodegradable Microplastics Less Harmful to the Environment?Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Using dual chamber microbial fuel cells for coupled microplastic biodegradation and bioelectricity production: assessing the effect of substrate.Microbial cell factories · 2026Article
- Microbial mechanisms as tools for monitoring and treating emerging contaminants in urban pollution: an overview.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Plastic additives enrich diverse bacterial communities which show the hallmarks of plastic degradation.Sustainable microbiology · 2026Article
- Genetically encoded biosensor enabled mining, characterisation and engineering of aromatic acid MFS transporters.Journal of biological engineering · 2025Article
- The Bacterial Genus Ramlibacter: Betaproteobacteria Capable of Surviving in Oligotrophic Environments Thanks to Several Shared Genetic Adaptation Traits.Environmental microbiology · 2025Review
- Genetic Bioaugmentation-Mediated Bioremediation of Terephthalate in Soil Microcosms Using an Engineered Environmental Plasmid.Microbial biotechnology · 2025Article
- Tuning the performance of a TphR-based terephthalate biosensor with a design of experiments approach.Metabolic engineering communications · 2024Article
- In Silico Analysis and Biochemical Characterization ofJournal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2024Article
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- Biofilm mitigation in hybrid chemical-biological upcycling of waste polymers.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Deconstructed Plastic Substrate Preferences of Microbial Populations from the Natural Environment.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
- Metagenomic Sequencing of Two Cultures Grown on Chemically Deconstructed Plastic Products.Microbiology resource announcements · 2023Article
- Conformational Selection of a Tryptophan Side Chain Drives the Generalized Increase in Activity of PET Hydrolases through a Ser/Ile Double Mutation.ACS organic & inorganic Au · 2023Article
- Biobased 2,5-Bis(hydroxymethyl)furan as a Versatile Building Block for Sustainable Polymeric Materials.ACS omega · 2023Review
- An Ultra-SensitiveApplied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Recent Advances in the Chemobiological Upcycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) into Value-Added Chemicals.Journal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Microbial Fermentation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic Waste for the Production of Chemicals or Electricity.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2022Article
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Plastics have become an important environmental concern due to their durability and resistance to degradation. Out of all plastic materials, polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are amenable to biological degradation due to the action of microbial polyester hydrolases. The hydrolysis products obtained from PET can thereby be used for the synthesis of novel PET as well as become a potential carbon source for microorganisms. In addition, microorganisms and biomass can be used for the synthesis of the constituent monomers of PET from renewable sources. The combination of both biodegradation and biosynthesis would enable a completely circular bio-PET economy beyond the conventional recycling processes. Circular strategies like this could contribute to significantly decreasing the environmental impact of our dependence on this polymer. Here we review the efforts made towards turning PET into a viable feedstock for microbial transformations. We highlight current bottlenecks in degradation of the polymer and metabolism of the monomers, and we showcase fully biological or semisynthetic processes leading to the synthesis of PET from sustainable substrates.
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