Plastics are everywhere in our modern way of living, and their production keeps increasing
every year, causing major environmental concerns. Nowadays, the end-of-life management …

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a synthetic polymer in the polyester family. It is widely
found in objects used daily, including packaging materials (such as bottles and containers) …

Earth is flooded with plastics and the need for sustainable recycling strategies for polymers
has become increasingly urgent. Enzyme‐based hydrolysis of post‐consumer plastic is an …

The environmental threat posed by disposal of plastic wastes has drawn extensive attention
in recent years wherein polyethylene terephthalate (PET) constitutes one of the major plastic …

This short paper reviews two groups of enzymes designated as polyethylene terephthalate
(PET) hydrolases: one consists of thermophilic cutinases from thermophilic microorganisms …

Plastics are highly durable and widely used materials. Current methodologies of plastic
degradation, elimination, and recycling are flawed. In recent years, biodegradation (the …

Trace metals have been an important ingredient for life throughout Earth's history. Here, we
describe the genome-guided cultivation of a member of the elusive archaeal lineage …

Nitrifying microorganisms occur across a wide temperature range from 4 to 84° C and
previous studies in geothermal systems revealed their activity under extreme conditions …

Few aerobic hyperthermophilic microorganisms degrade polysaccharides. Here, we
describe the genome-enabled enrichment and optical tweezer-based isolation of an aerobic …

The research on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) hydrolyzing enzymes started in 2005;
several studies are now nearing the objective of their application in biorecycling of PET …