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Monday, 12 November 2012

No nitrile hydratases in Acidobacteria

There is another interesting taxonomic post on All Things Considered called "A Whiff of Taxonomy: The Acidobacteria". They are a phylum of difficult to culture soil borne bacteria. I couldn't find one that contained a nitrile hydratase anything like the one in Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009. No evidence of the key metal binding sequence for either Co or Fe NHase at all. Some do appear to have nitrilase type proteins.

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