Table 4.

Enzymes derived from different microorganisms and their MP-degrading potential

MP-type	Enzyme	Microorganism	References
Biodegradable plastic	Esterase	Pseudozyma antartica	Sameshima-Yamashita et al. (2019)
HDPE	Peroxidase	Citrobacter sp.	Ojha et al. (2017)
LDPE	Laccase	Lysinibacillus sp.	Ghatge et al. (2020)
PE	Laccase	Rhodococcus ruber	Santo et al. (2013)
	Alkane hydroxylase	Pseudomonas sp.	Jeon and Kim (2015)
PET	PETase	Ideonella sakaiensis	Webb et al. (2013)
	Cutinase	Thermobifida fusca	Müller et al. (2005)
	Cutinase	Fusarium sp., and Humicola sp.	O’Neill et al. (2007); Ronkvist et al. (2009)
	MHETase	Ideonella sakaiensis	Yoshida et al. (2016)
	Oxidoreducase	Klebsiella pneumoniae	Peter Guengerich and Yoshimoto (2018); Kawai et al. (2019)
Polycaprolactone	Lipase	Alcaligenes faecalis	Oda et al. (1997)
Polycaprolactone and Polyhydroxybutyrate	Manganese peroxidase	Amycolaptosis sp. and Tremetes versicolor	Deguchi et al. (1998); Fujisawa et al. (2001)
Polyester	Polyesterase	Cyanobacteria sp.	Hajighasemi et al. (2018); Wani et al. (2021)
	Protease	P. fluorescens	Howard and Blake (1998)
	Serine hydrolase	Pestalotiopsis microspore	Russell et al. (2011)
Polylactic acid	Cutinase like enzyme	Cryptococcus sp.	Masaki et al. (2005)
PP	Monooxygenase	Rhodococcus sp.	Toda et al. (2012)
	Hydrolases	Rhodococcus sp. and Bacillus sp.	Auta et al. (2018)
PS	Hydrolases	Rhodococcus ruber	Mor and Sivan (2008)
	Styrene monooxygenase	Nocordia sp.	Jacquin et al. (2019)
	Isomerase, dehydrogenase, and monooxygenase	Micrococcus, Nocordia, and Bacillus	Jacquin et al. (2019); Danso et al. (2019)
	Cytochrome P4500s	Enterococcus sp.	Hou and Majumder (2021)
	Peroxidase, esterase, dioxygenase, and monooxygenase	B. paralicheniformis	Ganesh Kumar et al. (2021)
	Oxygenase	Exiguobacterium sp. RIT 594	Parthasarathy et al. (2022)
PU	Esterase	Alicycliphilus sp.	Oceguera-Cervantes et al. (2007)
	Lipase	Candida rugosa	Gautam et al. (2007)