Joseph Christie-Oleza
@jcolab.bsky.social
Marine microbial ecologist. Planktonic interactions, plastic biodegradation... mechanistic understanding always!
Correct! Colonies that secrete esterases that degrade the plastic make halos. The method works very well 😃! More details in the preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lack of functional polyester-biodegrading potential in marine versus terrestrial environments evidenced by an innovative airbrushing technique
Biodegradable plastics, primarily aliphatic polyesters, degrade to varying extents in different environments. However, the absence of easily implementable techniques for screening microbial biodegrada...
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November 8, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Correct! Colonies that secrete esterases that degrade the plastic make halos. The method works very well 😃! More details in the preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This was done with our innovative airbrush method (you can buy it in any hobby store), being able to spray any plastic (PHB, PCL, PLA, PBAT, PES, PBS, etc) on solid media plates. Then you can do a functional evaluation of colonies with the formation of degradation halos
November 7, 2024 at 8:20 AM
This was done with our innovative airbrush method (you can buy it in any hobby store), being able to spray any plastic (PHB, PCL, PLA, PBAT, PES, PBS, etc) on solid media plates. Then you can do a functional evaluation of colonies with the formation of degradation halos