title: Response to Comment on "A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)".
abstract: Yang et al suggest that the use of low-crystallinity poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) exaggerates our results. However, the primary focus of our study was identifying an organism capable of the biological degradation and assimilation of PET, regardless of its crystallinity. We provide additional PET depolymerization data that further support several other lines of data showing PET assimilation by growing cells of Ideonella sakaiensis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Biology, Faculty of Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan. Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan.
authors.forename: Shosuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Biology, Faculty of Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiraga
authors.affiliation: Life Science Materials Laboratory, ADEKA Corporation, 7-2-34 Higashiogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo 116-8553, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshihiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takehana
authors.affiliation: Department of Polymer Science, Faculty of Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
authors.forename: Ikuo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Biology, Faculty of Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
authors.forename: Hironao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamaji
authors.affiliation: Ecology-Related Material Group Innovation Research Institute, Teijin Ltd., Hinode-cho 2-1, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi 740-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhito
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.affiliation: Ecology-Related Material Group Innovation Research Institute, Teijin Ltd., Hinode-cho 2-1, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi 740-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Kiyotsuna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Toyohara
authors.affiliation: Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan. kmiyamoto@bio.keio.ac.jp bika@kit.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Polymer Science, Faculty of Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshiharu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Biology, Faculty of Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan. kmiyamoto@bio.keio.ac.jp bika@kit.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Kohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oda
mesh_terms: D020562:Betaproteobacteria / Q000201:enzymology*; D010969:Plastics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011093:Polyethylene Terephthalates / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D010969:Plastics; D011093:Polyethylene Terephthalates