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2023
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42004-023-00998-z in citations.
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An archaeal lid-containing feruloyl esterase degrades polyethylene terephthalate
An archaeal lid-containing feruloyl esterase degrades polyethylene terephthalate
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a commodity polymer known to globally contaminate marine and terrestrial environments. Today, around 80 bacterial and fungal PET-active enzymes (PETases) are known, originating from four bacterial and two fungal phyla. In contrast, no archaeal enzyme had been iden...
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Personal Name(s): | Perez-Garcia, Pablo |
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Chow, Jennifer / Costanzi, Elisa / Gurschke, Marno / Dittrich, Jonas / Dierkes, Robert F. / Molitor, Rebecka / Applegate, Violetta / Feuerriegel, Golo / Tete, Prince / Danso, Dominik / Thies, Stephan / Schumacher, Julia / Pfleger, Christopher / Jaeger, Karl-Erich / Gohlke, Holger / Smits, Sander H. J. / Schmitz, Ruth A. (Corresponding author) / Streit, Wolfgang R. (Corresponding author) | |
Contributing Institute: |
Institut für Molekulare Enzymtechnologie (HHUD); IMET Bioinformatik; IBG-4 |
Published in: | Communications chemistry, 6 (2023) 1, S. 193 |
Imprint: |
[London]
Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
2023
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DOI: |
10.1038/s42004-023-00998-z |
DOI: |
10.34734/FZJ-2023-03512 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Zentrum für strukturelle Studien Biological and environmental resources for sustainable use |
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OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.34734/FZJ-2023-03512 in citations.
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a commodity polymer known to globally contaminate marine and terrestrial environments. Today, around 80 bacterial and fungal PET-active enzymes (PETases) are known, originating from four bacterial and two fungal phyla. In contrast, no archaeal enzyme had been identified to degrade PET. Here we report on the structural and biochemical characterization of PET46 (RLI42440.1), an archaeal promiscuous feruloyl esterase exhibiting degradation activity on semi-crystalline PET powder comparable to IsPETase and LCC (wildtypes), and higher activity on bis-, and mono-(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET and MHET). The enzyme, found by a sequence-based metagenome search, is derived from a non-cultivated, deep-sea Candidatus Bathyarchaeota archaeon. Biochemical characterization demonstrated that PET46 is a promiscuous, heat-adapted hydrolase. Its crystal structure was solved at a resolution of 1.71 Å. It shares the core alpha/beta-hydrolase fold with bacterial PETases, but contains a unique lid common in feruloyl esterases, which is involved in substrate binding. Thus, our study widens the currently known diversity of PET-hydrolyzing enzymes, by demonstrating PET depolymerization by a plant cell wall-degrading esterase. |