Transcriptome-Guided Insights Into Plastic Degradation by the Marine Bacterium.

ABSTRACT: Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a common single-use plastic that accumulated in the environment because of its non-degradable characteristics. In recent years, microbes from different environments were found to degrade plastics and suggested their capability to degrade plastics under varying environmental conditions. However, complete degradation of plastics is still a void for large-scale implications using microbes because of the lack of knowledge about genes and pathways intricate in the biodegradation process. In the present study, the growth and adherence of marine Bacillus species AIIW2 on PET surface instigating structural deterioration were confirmed through weight loss and hydrophobicity reduction, as well as analyzing the change in bond indexes. The genome-wide compara

SUBMITTER: Kumari A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8503683 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature