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Addendum: Polyvinyl chloride degradation by a bacterium isolated from the gut of insect larvae

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In our published article 1 , we reported that a purified catalase-peroxidase from Klebsiella sp. EMBL-1 displayed PVC depolymerization activity. However, Stepnov et al. 2 have recently reported that their attempts to replicate our experiments failed to provide any evidence of PVC oxidation or depolymerization activity. Moreover, they concluded that the FTIR peaks that we claimed to indicate enzymatic oxidation of PVC resulted from adsorbed residual protein and not from PVC oxidation 2 .

Source: Nature Communications

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58986-x

Authors: Zhe Zhang, Haoran Peng, Dongchen Yang, Guoqing Zhang, Jinlin Zhang, Feng Ju

Institutions: Westlake University, Hebei Agricultural University

Language: English

Topic: Polymer Science and PVC

Subfield: Polymers and Plastics

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $6,990

OpenAlex ID: W4409540530