Recent advances and promises in nitrile hydratase: from mechanism to industrial applications

Z Cheng, Y Xia, Z Zhou - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Nitrile hydratase (NHase, EC 4.2. 1.84) is one type of metalloenzyme participating in the
biotransformation of nitriles into amides. Given its catalytic specificity in amide production …

Nitrile-converting enzymes as a tool to improve biocatalysis in organic synthesis: recent insights and promises

JS Gong, JS Shi, ZM Lu, H Li, ZM Zhou… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Nitrile-converting enzymes, including nitrilase and nitrile hydratase (NHase), have received
increasing attention from researchers of industrial biocatalysis because of their critical role …

Cyanide-free synthesis of aromatic nitriles from aldoximes: discovery and application of a novel heme-containing aldoxime dehydratase

Z Chen, F Mao, H Zheng, Q Xiao, Z Ding… - Enzyme and Microbial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aromatic nitriles are important structural motifs that frequently existed in pharmaceutical
drugs. Due to the convenient synthesis of aldoximes from aldehydes, the dehydration of …

Formation of cross-linked nitrile hydratase aggregates in the pores of tannic-acid-templated magnetic mesoporous silica: characterization and catalytic application

J Gao, H Yu, L Zhou, Y He, L Ma, Y Jiang - Biochemical Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tannic-acid-templated magnetic mesoporous silica nanoparticles (TA-MMSNs) were
synthesized for the first time. The TA-MMSNs were monodisperse spherical particles with a …

Nitrile hydratases: from industrial application to acetamiprid and thiacloprid degradation

S Sun, J Zhou, J Jiang, Y Dai… - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The widespread application of neonicotinoid insecticides (NEOs) in agriculture causes a
series of environmental and ecological problems. Microbial remediation is a popular …

Genome mining for enzyme discovery

Nature appears as the veteran protein engineer since it began its bioengineering
'experiments' billions of years ago. 1 A number of strategies have been developed to exploit …

Engineering of the thermophilic nitrile hydratase from Pseudonocardia thermophila JCM3095 for large-scale nicotinamide production based on sequence-activity …

Z Zhou, D Ma, Z Cheng - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2021 - Elsevier
The green biocatalyst nitrile hydratase (NHase) is able to bio-transform 3-cyanopyridine into
nicotinamide. As the NHase reaction is exothermic, an enzyme with high activity and stability …

Discovery of a new NADPH-dependent aldo-keto reductase from Candida orthopsilosis catalyzing the stereospecific synthesis of (R)-pantolactone by genome mining

J Wang, P Cheng, Y Wu, A Wang, F Liu, X Pei - Journal of biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract (R)-Pantolactone (PL) is a key chiral intermediate for the synthesis of calcium (R)-
pantothenate and (R)-panthenol used as food additives. The commercial production of (R) …

Chaperones-assisted soluble expression and maturation of recombinant Co-type nitrile hydratase in Escherichia coli to avoid the need for a low induction temperature

X Pei, Q Wang, L Meng, J Li, Z Yang, X Yin… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Nitrile hydratase (NHase) is an important industrial enzyme that biosynthesizes high-value
amides. However, most of NHases expressed in Escherichia coli easily aggregate to …

Evidence for the participation of an extra α-helix at β-subunit surface in the thermal stability of Co-type nitrile hydratase

X Pei, J Wang, Y Wu, X Zhen, M Tang, Q Wang… - Applied microbiology …, 2018 - Springer
Nitrile hydratase (NHase) has attracted considerable attention since it can efficiently
catalyze the hydration of nitriles to valuable amides. However, the poor stability of NHase is …