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Enzymatic synthesis of chiral phenylalanine derivatives by a dynamic kinetic resolution of corresponding amide and nitrile substrates with a multi-enzyme system
Yasukawa, Kazuyuki,Asano, Yasuhisa
, p. 3327 - 3332 (2013/01/15)
Mutant α-amino-ε-caprolactam (ACL) racemase (L19V/L78T) from Achromobacter obae with improved substrate specificity toward phenylalaninamide was obtained by directed evolution. The mutant ACL racemase and thermostable mutant D-amino acid amidase (DaaA) from Ochrobactrum anthropi SV3 co-expressed in Escherichia coli (pACLmut/pDBFB40) were utilized for synthesis of (R)-phenylalanine and non-natural (R)-phenylalanine derivatives (4-OH, 4-F, 3-F, and 2-F-Phe) by dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR). Recombinant E. coli with DaaA and mutant ACL racemase genes catalyzed the synthesis of (R)-phenylalanine with 84% yield and 99% ee from (RS)-phenylalaninamide (400 mM) in 22 h. (R)-Tyrosine and 4-fluoro-(R)-phenylalanine were also efficiently synthesized from the corresponding amide compounds. We also co-expresed two genes encoding mutant ACL racemase and L-amino acid amidase from Brevundimonas diminuta in E. coli and performed the efficient production of various (S)-phenylalanine derivatives. Moreover, 2-aminophenylpropionitrile was converted to (R)-phenylalanine by DKR using a combination of the non-stereoselective nitrile hydratase from recombinamt E. coli and mutant ACL racemase and DaaA from E. coli encoding mutant ACL racemase and DaaA genes. Copyright
Practical and convenient enzymatic synthesis of enantiopure α-amino acids and amides
Wang, Mei-Xiang,Lin, Shuang-Jun
, p. 6542 - 6545 (2007/10/03)
Catalyzed by the nitrile hydratase and the amidease in Rhodococcus sp. AJ270 cells under very mild conditions, a number of α-aryl- and α-alkyl-substituted DL-glycine nitriles 1 rapidly underwent a highly enantioselective hydrolysis to afford D-(-)-α-amino acid amides 2 and L-(+)-α-amino acids 3 in high yields with excellent enantiomeric excesses in most cases. The overall enantioselectivity of the biotransformations of nitriles originated from the combined effects of a high L-enantioselective amidase and a low enantioselective nitrile hydratase. The influence of the substrates on both reaction efficiency and enantioselectivity was also discussed in terms of steric and electronic effects. Coupled with chemical hydrolysis of D-(-)-α-phenylglycine amide, biotransformation of DL-phenylglycine nitrile was applied in practical scale to produce both D- and L-phenylglycines in high optical purity.
Efficient chemoenzymatic synthesis of enantiomerically pure α-amino acids
Beller, Matthias,Eckert, Markus,Geissler, Holger,Napierski, Bernd,Rebenstock, Heinz-Peter,Holla, E. Wolfgang
, p. 935 - 941 (2007/10/03)
A general two-step chemoenzymatic synthesis for enantiomerically pure natural and nonnatural α-amino acids is presented. In the first step of the sequence, the ubiquitous educts aldehyde, amide and carbon monoxide react by palladium-catalyzed amidocarbonylation to afford the racemic N-acyl amino acids in excellent yields. In the second step, enzymatic enantioselective hydrolysis yields the free optically pure a-amino acid and the other enantiomer as the N-acyl derivative, both in optical purities of 85-99.5% ee. The advantage of the chemoenzymatic process compared to other amino acid synthesis are demonstrated by the preparation of various functionalized (-OR, -Cl, -F, -SR) α-amino acids on a 10-g scale.
