New publications- September 2012

There are two new publications:

• A review on stereoselectivity in nitrile hydratases by Anming Wang and co-workers in the African Journal of Microbiology Research (DOI: 10.5897/AJMR12.101). I am not sure it adds much to previous reviews. 
• A paper called “Biotransformation of benzonitrile herbicides via the nitrile hydratase–amidase pathway in rhodococci” in the Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology with Ludmilla Martınkova as corresponding author (DOI: 10.1007/s10295-012-1184-z). It looks at the ability of Rhodococcus rhodochrous PA-34 and Rhodococcus erythropolis A4 to hydrate and hydrolyze chloroxynil, bromoxynil, iodoxynil and dichlorobenil. The NHase seemed to be able to turnover the herbicides more easily than the downstream amidases were able to hydrate the resulting amides.