Nitrilase gene detection and nitrile metabolism in two bacterial strains associated with waste streams in Lagos, Nigeria

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Table 2 Growth potentials of nitrile-metabolizing bacteria species in form of pure and mixed culture grown on Glutaronitrile and Benzonitrile

	G			G + B/G	B			G + B/B
	WOD8	WOIS2	WOD8 + WOIS2	G + B/G	WOD8	WOIS2	WOD8 + WOIS2	G + B/B
μ (d⁻¹)	0.082	0.106	0.135	0.129	0.090	0.10	0.124	0.115
T_d (d)	12.16	9.46	7.40	7.75	11.11	10.00	8.09	8.71

WOD8-Bacillus sp., WOIS2-Corynebacterium sp., WOD8 + WOIS2-Bacillus sp. plus Corynebacterium sp., G-Glutaronitrile, B-Benzonitrile, G + B-Glutaronitrile plus Benzonitrile, G*+B-Equal mix of Glutaronitrile with Benzonitrile, G+B M,./4/B*-Equal mix of Benzonitrile with Glutaronitrile, µ-specific growth constant, T_d-doubling time