Efficient production of (R)-(-)-mandelic acid with highly substrate/product tolerant and enantioselective nitrilase of recombinant Alcaligenes sp.

Process Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 887-891

  Zhang, Zhi Jun ^a   Xu, Jian He ^a   He, Yu Cai ^a   Ouyang, Li Ming ^a   Liu, You Yan ^b   Imanaka, Tadayuki ^a,c  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

(R) ( ) Mandelic acid; Alcaligenes sp.; Enantioselective; Fed batch reaction; Highly substrate product tolerable; Nitrilase

Indexed keywords

ALCALIGENES SP; ENANTIOSELECTIVE; FED BATCHES; MANDELIC ACID; NITRILASE;

ACIDS; BIOCATALYSTS; CELL CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

SUBSTRATES;

ALCALIGENES; ALCALIGENES SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77950917918     PISSN: 13595113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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