1 2 3 A Novel Tripartite Aromatic Acids Transporter Is Essential for 4 Terephthalate Uptake in Comamonas sp. Strain E6 5 6 7 8 Masaru Hosaka, Naofumi Kamimura, Shotaro Toribami, Kosuke Mori, Daisuke Kasai, 9 Masao Fukuda, and Eiji Masai 10 11 Department of Bioengineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, 12 Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan 13 14 15

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 assimilatio...

Comamonas sp. strain E6 can degrade o-phthalate, terephthalate, and isophthalate via the protocatechuate 4,5-cleavage pathway. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of E6 in order to provide insights into its mechanisms in o-phthalate catabolism and its potential use for biotechnological applications.

Four sensitising anions naphthalene-1,5-disulfonate (15-NDS), naphthalene-2,6-dicarboxylate (26-NDC), benzoate (BA) and terephthalate (TA) were intercalated into a Eu(3+)-doped Zn/Al layered double hydroxide. The carboxylate anions enhanced the red luminescence of Eu(3+) much more strongly than the sulfonate, in the descending order TA > 26-NDC > BA > 15-NDS.

A CAD paradigm is presented to produce blow moulds for Poly Ethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles decorated with ornamental patterns. This work integrates design and manufacturing of decorated blow moulds which, in turn, are utilized to blow PET bottles. The parametric geometric modeling techniques are employed to customize a CAD system, tailoring to suit the requirements of the bottle making in...

The loading of a Zn-terephthalate based MOF in the inner cavity as well as on the outer walls of a hollow carbon nanofiber (CNF) creates MOF@CNF hybrids. This hybrid ''MOF@CNF'' displayed improved thermal stability as well as gas adsorption compared to the individual counterparts.

The thermal behaviour of the nanoporous iron(iii) terephthalate MIL-53 is in stark contrast to its chromium and aluminium analogues which show an expansion of the cell during dehydration; with iron, reversible dehydration occurs via evolution of the structure through a highly distorted metastable anhydrous phase to a more regular phase above 423 K in which pore volume remains approximately cons...

Abbreviations: Ab, antibody; ALP, alkaline phospha atrazine conjugated with horseradish peroxidase; CE, c nanotubes; CV, cyclic voltammetry; ELISA, enzyme-linke high-density polyethylene; HRP, horseradish peroxid magnetic beads; NP, nanoparticle; PAP, p-aminoph phosphate; PET, polyethylene terephthalate; POC, point electrode; RT, room temperature; TMB, 3,3′,5,5′-tetramet tetramethylbenzidine di...

Slow multiply charged ions are efficiently guided through nano-capillaries with large aspect ratio in polyethylene terephthalate (PET), due to self-organized charging of the inner capillary walls which prevents close collisions with the surface. In order to gain more insight into this interesting phenomenon we have measured the 2-D scattering distribution of transmitted ions during the charge-u...