Nylon-eating bacteria

Nylon-eating bacteria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Micrococcaceae
Genus: Paenarthrobacter
Species:
P. ureafaciens
Variety:
P. u. var. KI72
Trinomial name
Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens var. KI72
GTDB r95 & NCBI, 2020 (Busse HJ, 2016)
Synonyms
  • Arthrobacter sp. KI72
    Takehara I, 2017[1]
  • Flavobacterium sp. KI72
    Negoro S, 1980
  • Achromobacter guttatus KI72
    Kinoshita S, 1975

(Due to an OCR error, the strain name has occasionally been reported as "K172".)

Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens KI72, popularly known as nylon-eating bacteria, is a strain of Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens that can digest certain by-products of nylon 6 manufacture.[2] It uses a set of enzymes to digest nylon, popularly known as nylonase.[3]

  1. ^ Takehara, I; Kato, DI; Takeo, M; Negoro, S (27 April 2017). "Draft Genome Sequence of the Nylon Oligomer-Degrading Bacterium Arthrobacter sp. Strain KI72". Genome Announcements. 5 (17). doi:10.1128/genomeA.00217-17. PMC 5408104. PMID 28450506.
  2. ^ Takehara, I; Fujii, T; Tanimoto, Y (Jan 2018). "Metabolic pathway of 6-aminohexanoate in the nylon oligomer-degrading bacterium Arthrobacter sp. KI72: identification of the enzymes responsible for the conversion of 6-aminohexanoate to adipate". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 102 (2): 801–814. doi:10.1007/s00253-017-8657-y. PMID 29188330. S2CID 20206702.
  3. ^ Michael Le Page (March 2009). "Five classic examples of gene evolution". New Scientist.