Rhodococcus spp

A variety of commercial kits and automated systems are available to test the abilities of bacteria to assimilate, ferment, decarboxylate, or cleave selected organic compounds.46 Their reliability for species identification is usually greater with cultures from clinical samples, where a limited number of bacteria are commonly encountered, and less with environmental soil and water samples, where a great many uncommon or previously unidentified species not in the database are likely to be present.29,45 Additional tests beyond those found in the commercial kits may be necessary for example, the hydrolysis of various nitriles and amides is useful for identifying Rhodococcus spp.47 Some commercial kits for clinical use feature antimicrobial susceptibility testing.21... 

Nagy, I., F. Compemolle, K. Ghys, J. Vanderleyden, and R. Demot (1995a). A single cytochrome P-450 system is involved in degradation of the herbicides EPTC (s-ethyl dipropylthiocarbamate) and atrazine by Rhodococcus spp. strain NI86/21. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 61 2056-2060. 

Nagy, I., S. Verheijen, A. Deschrijver, J. Vandamme, P. Proost, G. Schoofs, J. Vanderleyden, and R. Demot (1995c). Characterization of the Rhodococcus spp. NI86/21 gene encoding alcohol -N,N -dimethyl-4-nitrosaniline oxidoreductase inducible by atrazine and thio-carbamate. Arch. Microbiol., 163 439 -46. 

In the case of 2-arylpropanoic acids, although the (5)-enantiomer (9) is available by a terminal oxidation, the alternative (/ )-enantiomer (11) can be prepared by the more extensive oxidative degradation of the alkylbenzene (10 equation 3) by Rhodococcus spp. (BPM 1613). In this case the optical induction is due to oxidative kinetic resolution of intermediates the recovered substrate is racemic. 

Chien C. C., Leadbetter E. R., and Godchaux W. (1999) Rhodococcus spp. utilize taurine (2-aminoethanesuhbnate) as sole source of carbon, energy, nitrogen, and sulfur for aerobic respiratory growth. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 176, 333-337. 

Rhodococcus spp. have also been used to hydrolyze only one of two nitrile groups in aromatic dinitriles in 86% yield.233 Rhodococcus rhodochrous has been used to hydrolyze aliphatic dinitriles, such as adiponitrile, to... 

Many microorganisms—which should not possess nitrile reductase activity—carry out these conversions and most are relatively unspecific as to substrate. Bacteria have been screened (and taxonomically classified) for acryonitrile hydratase activity amide production and substrate and inhibition studies have been made for the nitrile hydratase from Corynebacterium spp and Rhodococcus spp and the production of acrylamide has been brought to industrial fruition Bacteria that could utilize acryonitrile as sole nitrogen and carbon source and fungi that accept aliphatic nitriles (Ci to 5) as nitrogen... 

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