Nature Inspired Solutions for Polymers: Will Cutinase Enzymes Make Polyesters and Polyamides Greener?

摘要: The polymer and plastic sectors are under the urge of mitigating their environmental impact. need for novel more benign catalysts polyester synthesis or targeted functionalization led, in recent years, to an increasing interest towards cutinases due natural ability hydrolyze ester bonds cutin, a polymer. In this review, most advances hydrolysis various classes polyesters polyamides discussed with critical focus on actual perspectives applying enzymatic technologies practical industrial purposes. More specifically, cutinase enzymes compared lipases and, particular, lipase B from Candida antarctica, biocatalyst widely employed chemistry so far. Computational bioinformatics studies suggest that role attacking polymers confer some essential features processing also synthetic polyamides.