Ethanol treatment for sterilization, concentration, and stabilization of a biodegradable plastic–degrading enzyme from Pseudozyma antarctica culture supernatant

• Takumi Tanaka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takumi Tanaka, Ken Suzuki

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES), National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Ken Suzuki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takumi Tanaka, Ken Suzuki

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES), National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Hirokazu Ueda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES), National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Yuka Sameshima-Yamashita,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES), National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Hiroko Kitamoto

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kitamoto@affrc.go.jp

  Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES), National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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