Plastic Degrading Enzyme's Crystal Structure Solved

Using enzymes to break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—otherwise known as plastic—has shown great promise over the last few years, sparked by the 2016 discovery of a bacterium that grows on PET and partially feeds on it. The bacterium, Ideonella sakaiensis, possesses two enzymes, PETase and MHETase, which are able to digest PET plastic polymers.
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