title: The industrial potential of microbial nitrile biochemistry.
abstract: Nitrile compounds are manufactured widely by man as well as in Nature. The industrial potential of using the microbial metabolism of nitriles and related compounds for the manufacture of a variety of chemicals has started to be realised. The microbial metabolism of nitrile-using microorganisms can also be harnessed to biodegrade toxic waste effluent streams that contain nitriles and are formed during the chemical synthesis of nitrile compounds.
authors.affiliation: Biological Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wyatt
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Linton
mesh_terms: D001669:Biochemical Phenomena; D001671:Biochemistry; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D002617:Chemical Industry; D003486:Cyanides / Q000378:metabolism; D007218:Industrial Microbiology; D009570:Nitriles / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D003486:Cyanides; D009570:Nitriles