Threonine aldolases-screening, properties and applications in the synthesis of non-proteinogenic β-hydroxy-α-amino acids

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 409-424

  Dückers, Nina ^a   Baer, Katrin ^b   Simon, Sabine ^b   Gröger, Harald ^b   Hummel, Werner ^c  

^a Evocatal GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric synthesis; Carbon carbon bond formation; Phenylserine; Racemic resolution; Review; Threonine aldolases

Indexed keywords

ALDOLASES; ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; CARBON-CARBON BOND FORMATION; PHENYLSERINE; RACEMIC RESOLUTION;

ALDEHYDES; AMINO ACIDS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ENZYMES; ORGANIC ACIDS;

PHOSPHATASES;

ACETALDEHYDE; ALDEHYDE; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; BETA HYDROXY ALPHA AMINO ACID; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GLYCINE; THIAMPHENICOL; THREO 3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLSERINE; THREONINE; THREONINE ALDOLASE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALDEHYDE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYST; ENZYME; FUNGUS; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ALCALIGENES; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOCATALYST; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; BORDETELLA PARAPERTUSSIS; CHIRALITY; CLOSTRIDIUM PASTEURIANUM; DIASTEREOISOMER; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

ALDEHYDES; AMINO ACIDS; GLYCINE; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; KINETICS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THREONINE;

FUNGI;

EID: 77956227979     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2751-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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