Table 2 Multi-omic investigation of polymer degradation within the plastisphere. Annotations and relative abundances are based on the number of aligned metagenomic reads, or relative quantification of proteins, as a proportion of the total identified using PlasticDB as a reference
Metagenome | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PlasticDB enzyme | Substrate | PlasticDB species | PlasticDB phyla | Average ID (%) | Rel. ab. (%) |
Laccase | PE | Psychrobacter sp. | Proteobacteria | 80.3 | 36.4 |
Depolymerase | PLA | Marinobacter sp. | Proteobacteria | 79.8 | 18.2 |
Dehydrogenase | PHA, P3HV/PHBV | Paracoccus denitrificans | Proteobacteria | 80.8 | 18.2 |
Esterase | PLA | Uncultured bacterium | Uncultured bacterium | 83.3 | 18.2 |
Depolymerase | PLA | Pseudomonas putida | Proteobacteria | 78.7 | 9.1 |
Metaproteome | |||||
PlasticDB Enzyme | Substrate | PlasticDB taxonomy | Protein | Consensus taxonomy | Rel. ab. (%) |
Depolymerase | PLA | Paucimonas lemoignei | Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) depolymerase C | Paucimonas lemoignei | 12.4 |
Hydrolase | Nylon | Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens | 6-aminohexanoate-dimer hydrolase | Paenarthrobacter sp. | 28.3 |
Polyamidase | Nylon | Nocardia farcinica | 6-aminohexanoate-cyclic-dimer hydrolase | Nocardia sp. | 30.9 |