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A novel aryl acylamidase from Nocardia farcinica hydrolyses polyamide

Sonja Heumann1, Anita Eberl, Gudrun Fischer-Colbrie

  • 1Research Centre Applied Biocatalysis, Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria.

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
|October 23, 2008
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