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Ren Wei
Researcher at University of Greifswald
Publications - 60
Citations - 3815
Ren Wei is an academic researcher from University of Greifswald. The author has contributed to research in topics: Polyester & Polyethylene terephthalate. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 53 publications receiving 1945 citations. Previous affiliations of Ren Wei include Leipzig University.
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Microbial enzymes for the recycling of recalcitrant petroleum-based plastics: how far are we?
Ren Wei,Wolfgang Zimmermann +1 more
TL;DR: This review is focused on microbial biocatalysts involved in the degradation of the synthetic plastics polyethylene, polystyrene, polyurethane andpolyethylene terephthalate (PET).
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Enzymatic surface hydrolysis of PET : effect of structural diversity on kinetic properties of cutinases from thermobifida
Enrique Herrero Acero,Doris Ribitsch,Georg Steinkellner,Karl Gruber,Katrin Greimel,Inge Eiteljoerg,Eva Trotscha,Ren Wei,Wolfgang Zimmermann,Manfred Zinn,Artur Cavaco-Paulo,Giuliano Freddi,Helmut Schwab,Georg M. Guebitz +13 more
TL;DR: Cutinases from Thermobifida cellulosilytica DSM44535 and fusca DSM44342 hydrolyzing poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) were successfully cloned and expressed in E.coli BL21-Gold(DE3).
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New insights into the function and global distribution of polyethylene terephthalate (PET)-degrading bacteria and enzymes in marine and terrestrial metagenomes
Dominik Danso,Christel Schmeisser,Jennifer Chow,Wolfgang Zimmermann,Ren Wei,Christian Leggewie,Xiangzhen Li,Terry C. Hazen,Wolfgang R. Streit +8 more
TL;DR: Deep sequence mining of protein databases and metagenomes demonstrated that PET hydrolases indeed occur at very low frequencies in the environment, and it was possible to link them to phyla that were previously not known to harbor such enzymes.
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Biocatalysis as a green route for recycling the recalcitrant plastic polyethylene terephthalate
Ren Wei,Wolfgang Zimmermann +1 more
TL;DR: Biocatalysis can enable a closed‐loop recycling of post‐consumer PET waste and help in the development of new materials for recycling PET waste recycling.
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Possibilities and limitations of biotechnological plastic degradation and recycling
TL;DR: This Comment aims to clarify important aspects related to myths and realities about plastic biodegradation and suggests distinct strategies for a bio-based circular plastic economy in the future.