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CHEMSUSCHEM
卷 15, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202101932
关键词
biocatalysis; chemical recycling; enzymes; PET hydrolase; polymers
资金
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-AC36-08GO28308]
- U.S. DOE, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) and Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO)
- AMO
- BETO [DE-AC36-08GO28308]
- NREL
- University of Portsmouth [DE-AC36-08GO28308]
- Research England (E3Scheme)
- NREL Laboratory Directed Research and Development program
- Research England
- BBSRC [BB/P011918/1]
- University of Portsmouth Faculty of Science
- BBSRC [BB/P011918/1] Funding Source: UKRI
This study compares the performance of two types of PET-hydrolyzing enzymes and finds that reaction temperature has the strongest influence on their performance. Both enzymes achieve higher levels of PET conversion for substrates with moderate crystallinity, and show different inhibition profiles to product accumulation.
There is keen interest to develop new technologies to recycle the plastic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET). To this end, the use of PET-hydrolyzing enzymes has shown promise for PET deconstruction to its monomers, terephthalate (TPA) and ethylene glycol (EG). Here, the Ideonella sakaiensis PETase wild-type enzyme was compared to a previously reported improved variant (W159H/S238F). The thermostability of each enzyme was compared and a 1.45 angstrom resolution structure of the mutant was described, highlighting changes in the substrate binding cleft compared to the wild-type enzyme. Subsequently, the performance of the wild-type and variant enzyme was compared as a function of temperature, substrate morphology, and reaction mixture composition. These studies showed that reaction temperature had the strongest influence on performance between the two enzymes. It was also shown that both enzymes achieved higher levels of PET conversion for substrates with moderate crystallinity relative to amorphous substrates. Finally, the impact of product accumulation on reaction progress was assessed for the hydrolysis of both PET and bis(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET). Each enzyme displayed different inhibition profiles to mono(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (MHET) and TPA, while both were sensitive to inhibition by EG. Overall, this study highlights the importance of reaction conditions, substrate selection, and product accumulation for catalytic performance of PET-hydrolyzing enzymes, which have implications for enzyme screening in the development of enzyme-based polyester recycling.
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