Fig. 4. Conversion of a post-consumer PET bottle into vanillin. (a) Overview of the one-pot, two-step process to convert PET into value-added product vanillin. E. coli RARE_pVanX refers to E. coli RARE expressing plasmids pVan1, pVan2 and pSfp. (b) Data showing production of vanillin only in the presence of cells expressing the vanillin pathway enzymes and the feedstock PET.
