| Title |
Biodegradation of poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) film and foam plastic by Pseudozyma japonica sp. nov., a novel cutinolytic ustilaginomycetous yeast species
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|---|---|
| Published in |
3 Biotech, November 2013
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13205-013-0182-9 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Fatma F. Abdel-Motaal, Magdi A. El-Sayed, Soad A. El-Zayat, Shin-ichi Ito |
| Abstract |
Aliphatic polyesters poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) and foam plastic have been shown to be biodegradable by microorganisms, which possess cutinolytic enzymes. Pseudozyma japonica-Y7-09, showed both high growth and enzyme activity on Yeast malt (YM) medium fed with PCL film than on YM medium. The hydrolytic enzyme activity of the culture on p-nitrophenyl butyrate indicated the occurrence of cutinase enzyme. This activity was confirmed by the degradation of PCL film which reached to the maximum (93.33 %) at 15 days and the degradation of foam plastic which reached 43.2 % at 30 days. These results suggest that the extracellular cutinase enzyme of Pseudozyma japonica-Y7-09 may be useful for the biological degradation of plastic wastes. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 97 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 97 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 19% |
| Researcher | 16 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 5% |
| Professor | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 13 | 13% |
| Unknown | 30 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 18 | 19% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 11% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 6 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 4% |
| Engineering | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 17 | 18% |
| Unknown | 37 | 38% |
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