• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.45-47
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• 1986

Phenylglycine was obtained as the sole metabolite when .alpha.-aminophenylacetonitrile was ted to the culture broth of Aspergillus furmigatus furmigatus. The isolated phenylglycine showed L-configuration with 80% optical purity. Examination of the hydrolysis of the substrate to phenylglycine with cell free extracts, and the supernatant fraction and the particulate fraction both of which were obtained after ultracentrifugation of the cell free extract at 100,000g, indicated that the nitrile group hydrolyzing enzymes, nitrilase existed not only in cytoplasm, but in microsome fractions.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.69-82
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• 2023

Nitrilases are a hydrolase group of enzymes that catalyzes nitrile compounds and produce industrially important organic acids. The current objective is to optimize nitrilase production using statistical methods assisted with artificial intelligence (AI) tool from novel nitrile degrading isolate. A nitrile hydrolyzing bacteria Bacillus subtilis AGAB-2 (GenBank Ascension number- MW857547) was isolated from industrial effluent waste through an enrichment culture technique. The culture conditions were optimized by creating an orthogonal design with 7 variables to investigate the effect of the significant factors on nitrilase activity. On the basis of obtained data, an AI-driven support vector machine was used for the fitted regression, which yielded new sets of predicted responses with zero mean error and reduced root mean square error. The results of the above global optimization were regarded as the theoretical optimal function conditions. Nitrilase activity of 9832 ± 15.3 U/ml was obtained under optimized conditions, which is a 5.3-fold increase in compared to unoptimized (1822 ± 18.42 U/ml). The statistical optimization method involving Plackett Burman Design and Response surface methodology in combination with an AI tool created a better response prediction model with a significant improvement in enzyme production.