Simultaneous recognition of two chiral centers in α,β-diastereomeric amino acids by an N-carbamoyl-L-α-amino acid amidohydrolase from Alcaligenes xylosoxidans

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 711-713

  Ogawa, Jun ^a   Ryouno, Atsushi ^a   Xie, Sheng Xue ^a   Rakesh, Vohra M ^b   Indrati, Retno ^c   Miyakawa, Hisashi ^a   Ueno, Tamio ^a   Shimizu, Sakayu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

methylphenylalanine; Carbamoylase; Diastereomeric amino acids

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; AMINO ACID;

ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; STEREOISOMERISM;

ALCALIGENES XYLOSOXIDANS;

EID: 0032876980     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005592615103     Document Type: Article

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