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Table 1.2 (continued)
S. No. Polymer
Microorganisms
Experimental
period
Enzyme group
Product of degradation
Analytical
evidence
References
19.
Poly(butylene
adipate-co-butylene
terephthalate
Thermobifida
cellulosilytica
5 hours
Cutinase
Adipic acid
Gene cloning and
expression, HPLC
Perz et al.
(2015)
20.
Synthetic polyesters Clostridium botulinum
4 months
Esterase
Benzoic acid, terephthalic
acid, mono(2hydroxyethyl)
terephthalate, and
hydroxyethylbenzoate
NMR, HPLC/MS,
circular dichroism
spectroscopy,
X-ray diffraction,
cloning, and
expression
Perz et al.
(2016a)
21.
Poly ethylene
terephthalate,
Poly(butylene
adipate-co-butylene
terephthalate
Clostridium hathewayi
35 days
Cutinases
Bis(2-hydroxyethyl)
terephthalate, terephthalic
acid
Gene cloning and
expression, circular
dichroism, HPLC
Perz et al.
(2016b)
22.
Poly(butylene
adipate-co-butylene
terephthalate
Clostridium hathewayi
14 days
Esterase
Bis(2-hydroxyethyl)
terephthalate, mono(2hydroxyethyl)
terephthalate, terephthalic
acid, 2-hydroxyethyl
benzoate, benzoic acid
HPLC, gene
cloning and
expression,
crystallization, and
modeling
Perz et al.
(2016c)
23..
Plastic marine
debris
Sediments
100 days
Oxic and anoxic
marine slurry of
sediment and
water
–
Epifluorescent
microscope, cell
density, SEM,
Mass loss, Raman,
contact angle
Nauendorf
et al. (2016)
A. Kumari et al.