Response to Comment on "A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)"

Yang et al suggest that the use of low-crystallinity poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) exaggerates our results. However, the primary focus of our study was identifying an organism capable of the biological degradation and assimilation of PET, regardless of its crystallinity. We provide additional P...

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Published in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 353; no. 6301; p. 759
Main Authors:	Yoshida, Shosuke, Hiraga, Kazumi, Takehana, Toshihiko, Taniguchi, Ikuo, Yamaji, Hironao, Maeda, Yasuhito, Toyohara, Kiyotsuna, Miyamoto, Kenji, Kimura, Yoshiharu, Oda, Kohei
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States The American Association for the Advancement of Science 19-08-2016
Subjects:	Assimilation Bacteria Betaproteobacteria - enzymology Crystallinity Degradation Depolymerization Organisms Plastics - metabolism Polyethylene terephthalates Polyethylene Terephthalates - metabolism Terephthalate
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Summary:	Yang et al suggest that the use of low-crystallinity poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) exaggerates our results. However, the primary focus of our study was identifying an organism capable of the biological degradation and assimilation of PET, regardless of its crystallinity. We provide additional PET depolymerization data that further support several other lines of data showing PET assimilation by growing cells of Ideonella sakaiensis.
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ISSN:	0036-8075 1095-9203
DOI:	10.1126/science.aaf8625