TABLE 1.

Comprehensive overview of enzymes discussed in this review.

Plastic	Chemical bond	Domain and phylum	Species	Method of identification	Enzyme	Enzyme class	References
PET	Ester	Bacteria—Proteobacteria	Ideonella sakaiensis	Screening on low-crystallinity PET films	IsPETase	Tannase	Yoshida et al., 2016; Liu et al., 2018
PET	Ester	Bacteria—Actinomycetota	Thermobifida fusca	Enzyme activity assay on 3PET	TfCut2	Cutinase	Herrero Acero et al., 2011; Ribitsch et al., 2012, 2015
PET/PEF	Ester	Bacteria—Actinomycetota	Thermobifida cellulosilytica	Enzyme activity assay on 3PET Enzymatic assay on PEF powder	TcCut1	Cutinase	Herrero Acero et al., 2011; Pellis et al., 2016
PET	Ester	Bacteria—Actinomycetota	Thermobifida alba AHK119	Screening on 3PET	Est119/Tha-Cut1	Cutinase/Esterase	Kitadokoro et al., 2012; Ribitsch et al., 2012
PLA	Ester	Bacteria—Proteobacteria	Alcanivorax borkumensis	Screening on various polymer emulsions	ABO2449	α/β hydrolase	Hajighasemi et al., 2016
PLA	Ester	Bacteria—Proteobacteria	Rhodopseudomonas palustris.	Screening on various polymer emulsions	RPA1511	α/β hydrolase	Hajighasemi et al., 2016
PCL	Ester	Bacteria—Proteobacteria	Alcanivorax borkumensis	Screening on various polymer emulsions	ABO2449	α/β hydrolase	Hajighasemi et al., 2016
PCL	Ester	Bacteria—Proteobacteria	Rhodopseudomonas palustris.	Screening on various polymer emulsions	RPA1511	α/β hydrolase	Hajighasemi et al., 2016
PCL	Ester	Bacteria—Actinomycetota	Streptomyces sp.	In silico search, screening on emulsified PCL	SM14est	Esterase	Almeida et al., 2019
PS	Carbon-Carbon	Bacteria—Proteobacteria	Pseudomonas sp. DSM50071	Grown on PS film	No specific enzyme	Serine hydrolase	Kim et al., 2020
LD-PE	Carbon-carbon	Bacteria—Proteobacteria	Pseudomonas putida	Screening on LD-PE films	No specific enzyme	Unknown	Talkad et al., 2014
LD-PE	Carbon- carbon	Fungi—Ascomycota	Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium falciforme and Purpureocillum lilacinum	Initial screening on agar containing pulverized LD-PE	No specific enzyme	Unknown	Spina et al., 2021
LD-PE	Carbon-carbon	Bacteria	Marine organisms	LD-PE powder in medium	No specific enzyme	Unknown	Khandare et al., 2021