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

[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,...

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Autores: Wright, Robyn J., Bosch, Rafael, Langille, Morgan G. I., Gibson, Matthew I., Christie-Oleza, Joseph Alexander
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/257483
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/257483
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Plastisphere
Polyethylene terephthalate
Plastic biodegradation
Microbial community succession
Proteogenomics
Metabolomics
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Sumario:[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 plastisphere.