Microplastics are becoming increasingly prevalent in places ranging from remote oceans to inside bodies, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they appear in wastewater as well.
Other bacterial species, including the common E. coli, have previously been engineered to turn plastic into other useful molecules. However, C. testosteroni naturally chews up polymers, such as those in laundry detergents, and terephthalate, a monomer building block of PET.
So, Ludmilla Aristilde and colleagues wanted to see if C. testosteroni could also produce enzymes that degrade the PET polymer.
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