科学报道会吃PET塑料的微生物

日本科研人员发现了一种可以完全降解PET塑料的细菌微生物。
参考文献：
A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)
  1. Shosuke Yoshida1,2,*,
  2. Kazumi Hiraga1,
  3. Toshihiko Takehana3,
  4. Ikuo Taniguchi4,
  5. Hironao Yamaji1,
  6. Yasuhito Maeda5,
  7. Kiyotsuna Toyohara5,
  8. Kenji Miyamoto2,†,
  9. Yoshiharu Kimura4,
  10. Kohei Oda1,†

– Author Affiliations

  1. 1Department of Applied Biology, Faculty of Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
  2. 2Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan.
  3. 3Life Science Materials Laboratory, ADEKA, 7-2-34 Higashiogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo 116-8553, Japan.
  4. 4Department of Polymer Science, Faculty of Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
  5. 5Ecology-Related Material Group Innovation Research Institute, Teijin, Hinode-cho 2-1, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi 740-8511, Japan.
  1. ↵†Corresponding author. E-mail: kmiyamoto@bio.keio.ac.jp (K.M.); bika@kit.ac.jp (K.O.)

  • ↵* Present address: Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8530, Japan.

Science  11 Mar 2016:
Vol. 351, Issue 6278, pp. 1196-1199
DOI: 10.1126/science.aad6359
摘要Abstract

Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is used extensively worldwide in plastic products, and its accumulation in the environment has become a global concern. Because the ability to enzymatically degrade PET has been thought to be limited to a few fungal species, biodegradation is not yet a viable remediation or recycling strategy. By screening natural microbial communities exposed to PET in the environment, we isolated a novel bacterium, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, that is able to use PET as its major energy and carbon source. When grown on PET, this strain produces two enzymes capable of hydrolyzing PET and the reaction intermediate, mono(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalic acid. Both enzymes are required to enzymatically convert PET efficiently into its two environmentally benign monomers, terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol.

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