| Title | Trends in in-silico guided engineering of efficient polyethylene terephthalate (PET) hydrolyzing enzymes to enable bio-recycling and upcycling of PET |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 15009 |
| Authors | Jayasekara, SK; Joni, HD; Jayantha, B; Dissanayake, L; Mandrell, C; Sinharage, MMS; Molitor, R; Jayasekara, T; Sivakumar, P; Jayakody, LN |
| Title | Trends in in-silico guided engineering of efficient polyethylene terephthalate (PET) hydrolyzing enzymes to enable bio-recycling and upcycling of PET |
| Year | 2023 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the largest produced polyester globally, and less than 30% of all the PET produced globally (& SIM;6 billion pounds annually) is currently recycled into lower-quality products. The major drawbacks in current recycling methods (mechanical and chemical), have inspired the exploration of po-tentially efficient and sustainable PET depolymerization using biological approaches. Researchers have discovered efficient PET hydrolyzing enzymes in the plastisphere and have demonstrated the selective degradation of PET to original monomers thus enabling biological recycling or upcycling. However, several significant hurdles such as the less efficiency of the hydrolytic reaction, low thermostability of the enzymes, and the inability of the enzyme to depolymerize crystalline PET must be addressed in order to establish techno-economically feasible commercial-scale biological PET recycling or upcycling processes. Researchers leverage a synthetic biology-based design; build, test, and learn (DBTL) methodology to develop com-mercially applicable efficient PET hydrolyzing enzymes through 1) high-throughput metagenomic and proteomic approaches to discover new PET hydrolyzing enzymes with superior properties: and, 2) enzyme engineering approaches to modify and optimize PET hydrolyzing properties. Recently, in-silico platforms including molecular mechanics and machine learning concepts are emerging as innovative tools for the development of more efficient and effective PET recycling through the exploration of novel mutations in PET hydrolyzing enzymes. In-silico-guided PET hydrolyzing enzyme engineering with DBTL cycles enables the rapid development of efficient variants of enzymes over tedious conventional enzyme engineering methods such as random or directed evolution. This review highlights the potential of in-silico-guided PET degrading enzyme engineering to create more efficient variants, including Ideonella sakaiensis PETase (IsPETase) and leaf-branch compost cutinases (LCC). Furthermore, future research prospects are discussed to enable a sustainable circular economy through the bioconversion of PET to original or high-value platform chemi-cals.& COPY; 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creative-commons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| http://www.csbj.org/article/S2001037023002179/pdf |
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