Publications
Dunn, C., Owens, J., Fears, L., Nunnerley, L., Kirby, J., Armstrong, O., Thomas, P. J., Aberg, D., Gilder, W., Green, D., Antwis, R. and Freeman, C. (2019) “An affordable methodology for quantifying waterborne microplastics – an emerging contaminant in inland-waters”, Journal of Limnology. doi: 10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1943.
Hajighasemi M, Nocek BP, Tchigvintsev A, Brown G, Flick R, Xu X, Cui H, Hai T, Joachimiak A, Golyshin PN, Savchenko A, Edwards EA, Yakunin AF. Biochemical and Structural Insights into Enzymatic Depolymerization of Polylactic Acid and Other Polyesters by Microbial Carboxylesterases. 2016. Biomacromolecules. 17(6):2027–39. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.6b00223.
Hajighasemi M, Tchigvintsev, A, Nocek B, Flick R, Popovic A, Hai T, Khusnutdinova AN, Brown G, Xu X, Cui H, Anstett J, Chernikova TN, Brüls T, Le Paslier D, Yakimov MM, Joachimiak A, Golyshina OV, Savchenko A, Golyshin PN, Edwards EA, Yakunin AF. 2018. Screening and Characterization of Novel Polyesterases from Environmental Metagenomes with High Hydrolytic Activity against Synthetic Polyesters. Environmental Science and Technology 52(21):12388–12401. doi:
10.1021/acs.est.8b04252.
Martínez-Martínez M, Coscolín C, Santiago G, Chow J, Stogios PJ, Bargiela R, Gertler C, Navarro-Fernández J, Bollinger A, Thies S, Méndez-García C, Popovic A, Brown G, Chernikova TN, García-Moyano A, Bjerga GEK, Pérez-García P, Hai T, Del Pozo MV, Stokke R, Steen IH, Cui H, Xu X, Nocek BP, Alcaide M, Distaso M, Mesa V, Peláez AI, Sánchez J, Buchholz PCF, Pleiss J, Fernández-Guerra A, Glöckner FO, Golyshina OV, Yakimov MM, Savchenko A, Jaeger KE, Yakunin AF, Streit WR, Golyshin PN, Guallar V, Ferrer M, The INMARE Consortium. 2018. Determinants and Prediction of Esterase Substrate Promiscuity Patterns. ACS Chemical Biology 13(1):225–234. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00996.
Popovic A, Hai T, Tchigvintsev A, Hajighasemi M, Nocek B, Khusnutdinova AN, Brown G, Glinos J, Flick R, Skarina T, Chernikova TN, Yim V, Brüls T, Paslier DL, Yakimov MM, Joachimiak A, Ferrer M, Golyshina OV, Savchenko A, Golyshin PN, Yakunin AF. 2017. Activity screening of environmental metagenomic libraries reveals novel carboxylesterase families. Scientific Reports 7:44103. doi: 10.1038/srep44103.
Ruimin Qi, Jones DL, Zhen L, Qin L, Changrong Y., 2020. Behavior of microplastics and plastic film residues in the soil environment: A critical review. Science of the Total Environment in press. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134722)
Tchigvintsev A, Tran H, Popovic A, Kovacic F, Brown G, Flick R, Hajighasemi M, Egorova O, Somody JC, Tchigvintsev D, Khusnutdinova A, Chernikova TN, Golyshina OV, Yakimov MM, Savchenko A, Golyshin PN, Jaeger KE, and Yakunin AF 2015. The environment shapes microbial enzymes: five cold-active and salt-resistant carboxylesterases from marine metagenomes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 99: 2165–2178.