Nylon-eating bacteria
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. It uses a set of enzymes to digest nylon, popularly known as nylonase.
| Nylon-eating bacteria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
| Class: | Actinomycetia |
| Order: | Micrococcales |
| Family: | Micrococcaceae |
| Genus: | Paenarthrobacter |
| Species: | |
| Variety: | P. u. var. KI72 |
| Trinomial name | |
| Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens var. KI72 GTDB r95 & NCBI, 2020 (Busse HJ, 2016) | |
| Synonyms | |
(Due to an OCR error, the strain name has occasionally been reported as "K172".) | |
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