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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2026

Adaptive evolution of

Efrain Rodriguez-Ocasio, Kimia Noroozi, Ammara Khalid, Jessica Brown, Robert C Brown, Mark A Blenner, Laura R Jarboe

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Efrain Rodriguez-OcasioDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6359-3670
Kimia NorooziDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
Ammara KhalidDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
Jessica BrownDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7763-666X
Robert C BrownDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0847-9557
Mark A BlennerDepartment of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9274-3749
Laura R JarboeDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4294-4347

Funding

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency HR0011-20-2-0034
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thermal oxo-degradation (TOD) of plastic can transform plastic waste into fermentable feedstocks. Bioconversion of the TOD products could be used as feedstocks in a biorefinery concept and lead to new avenues for plastic waste upcycling. Previous work demonstrated this concept with high-density polyethylene (HDPE), the most abundant type of plastic, and identified the nonconventional yeast IMPORTANCE: Plastics are considered non-biodegradable because they take decades to break down into molecules that can enter the various carbon cycles. Thermal oxo-degradation can accelerate this rate-limiting step by turning plastic waste into a fermentable carbon source. In this work, we use Adaptive Laboratory Evolution to optimize the bioconversion of depolymerized HDPE by

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BiosurfactantsCandidaPlasticsSurface-Active AgentsBiodegradation, EnvironmentalBiotransformationPlasticsSurface-Active Agentsbiosurfactantevolutionhydrocarbon solubilizationmembrane permeabilitynonconventional yeastplasticthermal oxo-degradation

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PMID41778771
PMCPMC13101509

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