A nitrile-metabolising enzyme and a process for producing an acid using same

Lee Coffey (Inventor), Catherine O'Reilly (Inventor), Claire Lennon (Inventor), Tracey Coady (Inventor), Erica Owens (Inventor), Panagiotis Manesiotis (Inventor), Karen Tambling (Inventor)

Research output: Patent

Abstract

The present invention relates to an isolated nucleotide sequence and corresponding polypeptide derived from the nitrile-metabolising Pantoea strain deposited under NCIMB 41854. Said isolated polypeptide acts as a nitrilase and the invention extends to a process for producing a carboxylic acid using said isolated polypeptide to metabolise nitriles such as 3-hydroxyglutaronitrile, 3-hydroxybutyronitrile and 3- hydroxy-phenylpropionitrile to form corresponding carboxylic acids.
Original languageEnglish
Patent numberWO2013004834 A1
Publication statusPublished - 10 Jan 2013

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