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Thursday, 5 July 2012

NHase reviews in recent books

I have recently come across two book chapters which would be of interest to those interested in nitrile hydratase (and indeed nitrilases) enzymes.
Biocatalysis for the Pharmaceutical Industry: Discovery, Development, and Manufacturing edited by Junhua (Alex) Tao, Guo-Qiang Lin and Andreas Liese has a chapter on “Applications of Nitrile Hydratases and Nitrilases” written by Grace DeSantis and Robert DiCosimo.
Biology of Rhodococcus edited by Héctor Alvarez, whilst sounding a touch unpromising has a chapter co-written by Ludmila Martınkova entitled “Catabolism of Nitriles in Rhodococcus” which runs through a lot of the synthetic potential that the NHases from this type of prokaryote possess in detail I haven’t seen altogether in one place before.

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