Enzyme in human salivary microbes decomposes PET-based plastics
Human saliva may contain an enzyme which can decompose the plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Researchers found the promising enzyme, a hydrolase, in a database containing human metagenome samples. As they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, this newly discovered hydrolase performs better than many other known bacterial PET hydrolases…
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