摘要: Abstract Nitrile-hydrolysing enzymes such as nitrile hydratase, nitrilase and amidase have great potential catalysts in processing organic chemicals because they can convert nitriles to the corresponding higher-value amides or acids. Very recently, use of bacterial hydratase for industrial production important chemical commodity, acrylamide, was pioneered Japan. We review here both enzymatic other recent progress microbial transformation nitriles.