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I remember reading about other times that nylon-waste 'digesting' proteins (or something) had been evolved through mutations in the lab. Anyone have information on this?
Yes, the complete citation is:
Appl Environ Microbiol. 1995 May;61(5):2020-2. Emergence of nylon oligomer degradation enzymes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO through experimental evolution. Prijambada ID, Negoro S, Yomo T, Urabe I.
The complete paper can be found
here in PDF format. Interesting article, showing the emergence of two types of nylon digesting enzymes.