Response to Comment on "a bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)"

Shosuke Yoshida; Kazumi Hiraga; Toshihiko Takehana; Ikuo Taniguchi; Hironao Yamaji; Yasuhito Maeda; Kiyotsuna Toyohara; Kenji Miyamoto; Yoshiharu Kimura; Kohei Oda

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Response to Comment on "a bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)"

Shosuke Yoshida, Kazumi Hiraga, Toshihiko Takehana, Ikuo Taniguchi, Hironao Yamaji, Yasuhito Maeda, Kiyotsuna Toyohara, Kenji Miyamoto, Yoshiharu Kimura, Kohei Oda

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	759-C
Journal	Science
Volume	353
Issue number	6301
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf8625
Publication status	Published - 2016 Aug 19

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