PRJNA766622
Degradation of poly(epsilon-caprolactone) by a thermophilic community and Brevibacillus thermoruber strain 7 isolated from Bulgarian hot spring
Degradation of poly(epsilon-caprolactone) by a thermophilic community and Brevibacillus thermoruber strain 7 isolated from Bulgarian hot springNikolina Atanasova, Tsvetelina Paunova-Krasteva, Stoyanka Stoitsova, Nadja Radchenkova, Ivanka Boyadzhieva, Kaloyan Petrov, Margarita KambourovaInstitute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev str. Bl. 26, Sofia, BulgariaInstitute of Chemical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str. Bl. 103, 1113 Sofia, BulgariaThe continual plastic accumulation in the environment and its hazardous consequences determine the interest in thermophiles as possible effective plastic degraders due to their unique metabolic mechanisms and change of plastic properties at elevated temperature. Metagenomic analysis of the microbial community cultivated in a minimal medium with and without the plastic poly-e-caprolactone (PCL) aimed to reveal the change in the community presented taxonomic groups in a PCL presence and domination of plastic active taxa.