TABLE 7.
Enzymes associated with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) biodegradation.
| Enzyme | Isolated source | Tested PET | Crystallinity, % | Reaction temperature, °C | Incubation time, d | Weight loss, % | References |
| TfH | Thermobifida fusca | PET bottle and pellets | 9 | 55 | 21 | 54.2 | Müller et al., 2005 |
| HiC; PmC; PsC | Humicola insolens; Pseudomonas mendocina; Fusarium solani | Low-crystallinity PET film | 7 | 70 | 6 | 97% | Ronkvist et al., 2009 |
| LC-cutinase | Compost metagenomic library | Low-crystallinity PET film | 8.4 | 50 | 7 | 50 | Sulaiman et al., 2012 |
| Cut190 | Saccharomonospora viridis | Low-crystallinity PET film | 8.4 | 63 | 3 | 27 | Kawai et al., 2014 |
| IsPETase | Ideonella sakaiensis | Low-crystallinity PET film | 1.9 | 30 | 0.75 | – | Yoshida et al., 2016 |
| IsPETase | Ideonella sakaiensis | Low-crystallinity PET film | – | 30 | 1 | 1 | Wei et al., 2019b |
| TfCut2 | Thermobifida fusca | Low-crystallinity PET chip | 7 | 70 | 5 | 97 | Wei et al., 2019a |