Mini-review: Recent developments in hydroxynitrile lyases for industrial biotechnology

Recent Patents on Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 197-206

  Lanfranchi, Elisa ^a   Steiner, Kerstin ^a   Glieder, Anton ^a   Hajnal, Ivan ^a   Sheldon, Roger A ^b   van Pelt, Sander ^b   Winkler, Margit ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b CLEA Technologies BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymmetric synthesis; Biocatalysis; Biotransformation; C C coupling; Cascade reactions; Chiral building blocks; Cyanogenesis; Cyanohydrin; Enantioselectivity; Enzyme engineering; HNL; Hydrocyanic acid; Hydroxynitrile lyase; Industrial process; Mandelonitrile lyase; Oxynitrilase; Plant enzymes; Stereoselective

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; ENZYMES; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; STEREOSELECTIVITY;

ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; C-C COUPLING; CASCADE REACTIONS; CHIRAL BUILDING BLOCKS; CYANOGENESIS; CYANOHYDRIN; ENZYME ENGINEERING; HYDROCYANIC ACID; HYDROXYNITRILE LYASES; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; MANDELONITRILE LYASE; OXYNITRILASES; PLANT ENZYMES; STEREO-SELECTIVE;

CARBONYL COMPOUNDS;

CYANOHYDRIN; EFFEXORXR; HISTIDINE; HYDROXYNITRILE LYASE; PANTOTHENIC ACID; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL REACTION; CROSS LINKING; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; PATENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALDEHYDE-LYASES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; NITRILES; PATENTS AS TOPIC; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84891522653     PISSN: 18722083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/18722083113076660010     Document Type: Review

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