A multi-OMIC characterisation of biodegradation and microbial community succession within the PET plastisphere.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plastics now pollute marine environments across the globe. On entering these environments, plastics are rapidly colonised by a diverse community of microorganisms termed the plastisphere. Members of the plastisphere have a myriad of diverse functions typically found in any biofilm but, additionally, a number of marine plastisphere studies have claimed the presence of plastic-biodegrading organisms, although with little mechanistic verification. Here, we obtained a microbial community from marine plastic debris and analysed the community succession across 6 weeks of incubation with different polyethylene terephthalate (PET) products as the sole carbon source, and further characterised the mechanisms involved in PET degradation by two bacterial isolates from the plastisphe

SUBMITTER: Wright RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8215760 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature