Till Tiso

TL;DR: The metabolic engineering of a rhamnolipid producing Pseudomonas putida KT2440, a strain certified as safety strain using glucose as carbon source to avoid cumbersome product purification, is reported, finding a functional alternative to the pathogen P. aeruginosa.

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.

TL;DR: Non-conventional feedstocks arising from industrial production and societal consumption such as CO2 and plastic waste may soon enable manufacture of multiple products from simple bulk chemicals to pharmaceuticals using biotechnology.

TL;DR: In this article, the sequential conversion of post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into two types of bioplastics is presented: a medium chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) and a novel bio-based poly(amide urethane) (bio-PU).

TL;DR: This work engineered a microbial cell factory to specifically produce three different biosurfactant mixtures, able to show that the different mixtures indeed feature different physico-chemical characteristics, and demonstrated rhamnolipid production from sustainable carbon sources, including glycerol and xylose.