Bookedited by Gert Weber, Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Ren Wei.
Contents:
Current status and future development of plastics : Solutions for a circular economy and limitations of environmental degradation / Pia Skoczinski, Lars Krause, Achim Raschka, Lara Dammer, and Michael Carus
Methods for microplastic sampling and analysis in the seawater and fresh water environment / Chengjun Sun, Jinfeng Ding, and Fenglei Gao
Exploring microbial consortia from various environments for plastic degradation / Ingrid Eileen Meyer Cifuentes and Basak Öztürk
Cultivation of filamentous fungi for attack on synthetic polymers via biological Fenton chemistry / Dietmar Schlosser
Characterization of biodegradation of plastics in insect larvae / Wei-Min Wu and Craig S. Criddle
Quantification of polystyrene plastics degradation using ¹⁴C isotope tracer technique / Lili Tian, Yini Ma, and Rong Ji
Exploring the global metagenome for plastic-degrading enzymes / Pablo Pérez-García, Dominik Danso, Hongli Zhang, Jennifer Chow, and Wolfgang R. Streit
Cutinases from thermophilic bacteria (actinomycetes) : From identification to functional and structural characterization / Masayuki Oda, Nobutaka Numoto, Gert-Jan Bekker, Narutoshi Kamiya, and Fusako Kawai
Ideonella sakaiensis, PETase, and MHETase : From identification of microbial PET degradation to enzyme characterization / Shosuke Yoshida, Kazumi Hiraga, Ikuo Taniguchi, and Kohei Oda
GRAPE, a greedy accumulated strategy for computational protein engineering / Jinyuan Sun, Yinglu Cui, and Bian Wu
Mechanistic investigation of enzymatic degradation of polyethylene terephthalate by nuclear magnetic resonance / Patricia Falkenstein, Ren Wei, Jörg Matysik, and Chen Song
Fluorimetric high-throughput screening method for polyester hydrolase activity using polyethylene terephthalate nanoparticles / Lara Pfaff, Daniel Breite, Christoffel P.S. Badenhorst, Uwe T. Bornscheuer, and Ren Wei
Anchor peptides promote degradation of mixed plastics for recycling / Yu Ji, Yi Lu, Hendrik Puetz, and Ulrich Schwaneberg
Tuning of adsorption of enzymes to polymer / Doris Ribitsch and Georg M. Guebitz
Characterization of the enzymatic degradation of polyurethanes / Audrey Magnin, Eric Pollet, and Luc Avérous
Structural analysis of PET-degrading enzymes PETase and MHETase from Ideonella sakaiensis / Leonie G. Graf, Emil A.P. Michels, Yelwin Yew, Weidong Liu, Gottfried J. Palm, and Gert Weber
Structural and functional characterization of nylon hydrolases / Seiji Negoro, Dai-ichiro Kato, Taku Ohki, Kengo Yasuhira, Yasuyuki Kawashima, Keisuki Nagai, Masahiro Takeo, Naoki Shibata, Katsumasa Kamiya, and Yasuteru Shigeta
Upcycling of hydrolyzed PET by microbial conversion to a fatty acid derivative / Gina Welsing, Birger Wolter, Henric M.T. Hintzen, Till Tiso, and Lars M. Blank
Screening and cultivating microbial strains able to grow on building blocks of polyurethane / María José Cárdenas Espinosa, Andrea Colina Blanco, Hermann J. Heipieper, and Christian Eberlein
Engineering microalgae as a whole cell catalyst for PET degradation / Daniel Moog, Jan Zarzycki, Karl-Heinz Rexer, Tobias J. Erb, and Uwe G. Maier
Yeast cell surface display of bacterial PET hydrolase as a sustainable biocatalyst for the degradation of polyethylene terephthalate / Zhuozhi Chen, Yunjie Xiao, Gert Weber, Ren Wei, and Zefang Wang.