Strains of Rhodococcus are applicably important owing to their ability to catabolize a wide range of compounds and produce bioactive steroids, acrylamide, and acrylic acid, and their involvement in fo...Strains of Rhodococcus are applicably important owing to their ability to catabolize a wide range of compounds and produce bioactive steroids, acrylamide, and acrylic acid, and their involvement in fossil fuel biodesulfurization. An example of this is the use of Rhodococcus to produce indene, a precursor to the AIDS drug Crixivan TM , a protease inhibitor, and containing two of the five chiral centers needed in the complex.
