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A forest-soil enzyme that eats buried bioplastic also cleaves penicillin in the lab
Harry Lerner and David Schleheck buried polyester film in forest humus for a year, then pulled from the soil metagenome a cell-surface esterase whose fold and activity both point toward beta-lactamases.
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