Engineering Pseudomonas putida KT2440 for open-loop upcycling of mixed plastics
Hao Meng, Tobias Karmainski, Aziz Ben Ammar, Anka Sieberichs, Yannick Branson, Peer Vossen, Tobias Schwanemann, Hendrik Ballerstedt, Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Ren Wei, Lars M. Blank
This study engineers Pseudomonas putida KT2440 to co-utilize five plastic monomers from mixed plastics, achieving complete substrate depletion and producing (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate.
Trends in biotechnology · Sep 1, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology