The enzymatic degradation of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) occurs at mild reaction conditions and may find applications in environmentally
friendly plastic waste recycling processes. The hydrolytic activity of the
homologous polyester hydrolases LC cutinase (LCC) from a compost
metagenome and TfCut2 from Thermobifida fusca KW3 against PET films
was strongly influenced by the reaction medium buffers tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane (Tris), 3-(N-morpholino)propanesulfonic acid (MOPS), and sodium phosphate. LCC showed the highest initial hydrolysis rate of PET films in 0.2 M Tris, while the rate of TfCut2 was 2.1-fold lower at this buffer concentration. At a Tris concentration of 1 M, the hydrolysis rate of LCC decreased by more than 90% and of TfCut2 by about 80%. In 0.2 M MOPS or sodium phosphate buffer, no significant differences in the maximum initial hydrolysis rates of PET films by both enzymes were detected. When the concentration of MOPS was increased to 1 M, the hydrolysis rate of LCC decreased by about 90%. The activity of TfCut2 remained low compared to the increasing hydrolysis rates observed at higher concentrations of sodium phosphate buffer. In contrast, the activity of LCC did not change at different concentrations of this buffer. An inhibition study suggested a competitive inhibition of TfCut2 and LCC by Tris and MOPS. Molecular docking showed that Tris and MOPS interfered with the binding of the polymeric substrate in a groove located at the protein surface. A comparison of the Ki values and the average binding energies indicated MOPS as the stronger inhibitor of the both enzymes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:14868 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Schmidt, Juliane, Wei, Ren, Oeser, Thorsten, Belisário-Ferrari, Matheus Regis, Barth, Markus, Then, Johannes, Zimmermann, Wolfgang |
| Contributors | Universität Leipzig |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Source | FEBS Open Bio 6 (2016),9, S. 919-927 doi:10.1002/2211-5463.12097 |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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