The industrial potential of microbial nitrile biochemistry.
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.
Wyatt
J M
JM
Biological Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
Linton
E A
EA
D001669:Biochemical Phenomena; D001671:Biochemistry; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D002617:Chemical Industry; D003486:Cyanides / Q000378:metabolism; D007218:Industrial Microbiology; D009570:Nitriles / Q000378:metabolism*
D003486:Cyanides; D009570:Nitriles