We report a collection of amplicon sequences of putative polyethylene terephthalate (PET) hydrolases from two different composts in Japan. Employing previously designed degenerate primers, we identified 31 and 22 sequences from industrial and agricultural composts, respectively, confirming the presence of highly homologous PET hydrolase genes across different compost environments.
Iizuka et al. (Mon,) studied this question.