Table 1.

Enzymes and degradation factors corresponding to degrading bacteria.

Source	Enzyme	Major Mechanism of Degradation	Plastics/ Mircoplastics	Optimum Conditions	References
Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F	PETase	Hydrolysis	PET	Temperature 70–75 °C	[35]
Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F	MHETase	Hydrolysis	PET	Temperature 70–75 °C	[35]
Amycolaptosis sp.	——	Hydrolysis	PLA	Temperature 50 °C	[54]
Aspergillus oryzae	——	Hydrolysis	PBS	Temperature 50 °C	[15]
Penicillium funiculosum	——	Hydrolysis	PHB	Temperature 50 °C	[15]
Thermomonospora and curvata (cutinase homolog from leaf-branch compost)	LC-cutinase	Hydrolysis	PET	Temperature 50 °C	[65]
Thermophilic, alkaliphilic, halophilic, and psychrophilic bacteria	Bacteriophilic enzyme	Hydrolysis	Various plastic	Salt, low, or high pH, temperatures	[67]
Pseudomonas, Arthrobacter	PME hydrolases	Hydrolysis and oxidation	PVC, PP, PE, PS (PAEs)	Temperature 30–70 °C	[13]
Bacillus sp. GZB	A spore-laccase	The expression of different functional genes	PC (BPA)	Adding electron donors and co-substrates	[69]
Aspergillus sp. strain ST-01	Catalase, Protease	Colonization	PCL	Temperature 50 °C	[56]