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Comment
. 2016 Aug 19;353(6301):759.
doi: 10.1126/science.aaf8305.

Comment on "A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)"

Yu Yang  1 , Jun Yang  2 , Lei Jiang  2
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Comment on "A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)"

Yu Yang et al. Science. .

Abstract

Yoshida et al (Report, 11 March 2016, p. 1196) reported that the bacterium Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 can degrade and assimilate poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET). However, the authors exaggerated degradation efficiency using a low-crystallinity PET and presented no straightforward experiments to verify depolymerization and assimilation of PET. Thus, the authors' conclusions are rather misleading.

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