DOI: 10.1039/d6gc05675j ISSN: 1463-9262
Functional mining in marine ecosystems uncovers unexpected diversity of globally distributed nylon degrading enzymes
Alan Wypych, Nico Bäse, Golo Feuerriegel, Cara F. E. Wonneberger, Gaby Graack, Jennifer Menzel, Cynthia M. Chibani, Sukmanita Dewi, Stephan Thies, Nadine Königshausen, Thomas Mair, Bente Siebels, José Julián Picado Morales, Paul Bubenheim, Andreas Liese, Laura Hartmann, Nick Wierckx, Pablo Pérez-García, Robert Dierkes, Wolfgang R. StreitNylon accumulates in marine and terrestrial environments. Through enrichment and omics analyses of evolutionarily adapted bacteria, new nylonases outside the known NylA,B,C framework have been discovered.