TY  - JOUR
AU  - Nikolaivits, Efstratios
AU  - Dimopoulou, Phaedra
AU  - Maslak, Veselin
AU  - Nikodinović-Runić, Jasmina
AU  - Topakas, Evangelos
PY  - 2020
UR  - https://imagine.imgge.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1633
AB  - Plastic waste poses an enormous environmental problem as a result of soil and ocean contamination, causing the release of microplastics that end up in humans through the food web. Enzymatic degradation of plastics has emerged as an alternative to traditional recycling processes. In the present work, we used bioinfomatics tools to discover a gene coding for a putative polyester degrading enzyme (polyesterase). The gene was heterologously expressed, purified and biochemically characterized. Furthermore, its ability to degrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET) model substrates and synthetic plastics was assessed.
T2  - Chemistry Proceedings
T2  - Chemistry Proceedings
T1  - Discovery and Biochemical Characterization of a Novel Polyesterase for the Degradation of Synthetic Plastics
IS  - 1
SP  - 33
VL  - 2
DO  - 10.3390/ECCS2020-07572
ER  - 

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author = "Nikolaivits, Efstratios and Dimopoulou, Phaedra and Maslak, Veselin and Nikodinović-Runić, Jasmina and Topakas, Evangelos",
year = "2020",
abstract = "Plastic waste poses an enormous environmental problem as a result of soil and ocean contamination, causing the release of microplastics that end up in humans through the food web. Enzymatic degradation of plastics has emerged as an alternative to traditional recycling processes. In the present work, we used bioinfomatics tools to discover a gene coding for a putative polyester degrading enzyme (polyesterase). The gene was heterologously expressed, purified and biochemically characterized. Furthermore, its ability to degrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET) model substrates and synthetic plastics was assessed.",
journal = "Chemistry Proceedings, Chemistry Proceedings",
title = "Discovery and Biochemical Characterization of a Novel Polyesterase for the Degradation of Synthetic Plastics",
number = "1",
pages = "33",
volume = "2",
doi = "10.3390/ECCS2020-07572"
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Nikolaivits, E., Dimopoulou, P., Maslak, V., Nikodinović-Runić, J.,& Topakas, E.. (2020). Discovery and Biochemical Characterization of a Novel Polyesterase for the Degradation of Synthetic Plastics. in Chemistry Proceedings, 2(1), 33.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ECCS2020-07572

Nikolaivits E, Dimopoulou P, Maslak V, Nikodinović-Runić J, Topakas E. Discovery and Biochemical Characterization of a Novel Polyesterase for the Degradation of Synthetic Plastics. in Chemistry Proceedings. 2020;2(1):33.
doi:10.3390/ECCS2020-07572 .

Nikolaivits, Efstratios, Dimopoulou, Phaedra, Maslak, Veselin, Nikodinović-Runić, Jasmina, Topakas, Evangelos, "Discovery and Biochemical Characterization of a Novel Polyesterase for the Degradation of Synthetic Plastics" in Chemistry Proceedings, 2, no. 1 (2020):33,
https://doi.org/10.3390/ECCS2020-07572 . .