Le début de la fin du PET ?
Publié : 22 avr. 2018, 11:50
Gros titres spectaculaires mis à part, la nouvelle est à suivre: Des chercheurs auraient découvert par hasard une bactérie/enzyme susceptible de "manger"
le PET
La bestiole semble prometteuse bien que des améliorations soient nécessaires avant toute utilisation à une échelle industrielle:
Characterization and engineering of a plastic-degrading aromatic polyesterase, avril 2018:

le PET
La bestiole semble prometteuse bien que des améliorations soient nécessaires avant toute utilisation à une échelle industrielle:
Characterization and engineering of a plastic-degrading aromatic polyesterase, avril 2018:
* et vive la théorie de l'évolutionGiven the fact that PET was only patented roughly 80 y ago and put into widespread use in the 1970s, it is likely that the enzyme system for PET degradation and catabolism in I. sakaiensis appeared only recently, demonstrating the remarkable speed at which microbes can evolve to exploit new substrates: in this case, waste from an industrial PET recycling facility *. Moreover, given the results obtained for the PETase double mutant, it is likely that significant potential remains for improving its activity further. This enzyme thus provides an exciting platform for additional protein engineering and evolution to increase the efficiency and substrate range of this polyesterase, as well as to provide clues of how to further engineer thermophilic cutinases to better incorporate aromatic polyesters, toward to the persistent challenge of highly crystalline polymer degradation
