A Gram-negative bacterium producing a heat-stable nitrilase highly active on aliphatic dinitriles

Autor: Eugenia Costa Hann, Susan K. Fager, John E. Gavagan, Robert DiCosimo, Patrick W. Folsom, Amy Eisenberg, K. J. Schneider, Robert D. Fallon
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 52:654-659
ISSN: 1432-0614
0175-7598
DOI: 10.1007/s002530051574
Popis: A Gram-negative bacterial strain, identified as Acidovorax facilis strain 72W, has been isolated from soil by enrichment using 2-ethylsuccinonitrile as the sole nitrogen source. This strain grows on a variety of aliphatic mono- and dinitriles. Experiments using various heating regimes indicate that nitrile hydratase, amidase and nitrilase activities are present. The nitrilase is efficient at hydrolyzing aliphatic dinitriles to cyanoacid intermediates. It has a strong bias for C3–C6 dinitriles over mononitriles of the same chain length. Whole, resting cell hydrolysis of 2-methylglutaronitrile results in 4-cyanopentanoic acid and 2-methylglutaric acid as the major products. Heating, at least 20 min at 50 °C, eliminates nitrile hydratase and amidase activities, resulting in greater than 97% selectivity to 4-cyanopentanoic acid. The nitrilase activity has good heat stability, showing a half-life of 22.7 h at 50 °C and a temperature optimum of at least 65 °C for activity. The strain has been deposited as ATCC 55746.
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