Recent achievements in developing the biocatalytic toolbox for chiral amine synthesis

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 180-192

  Kohls, Hannes ^a   Steffen Munsberg, Fabian ^a,b   Höhne, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; AMINE DEHYDROGENASE; AMMONIA; ASPARTATE AMMONIA LYASE; ELECTROPHILE; LEVOCETIRIZINE; NUCLEOPHILE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; STRICTOSIDINE; AMINOTRANSFERASE;

AMINATION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOCATALYST; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DECARBOXYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROGENATION; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REVIEW; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SYNTHESIS; TRANSAMINATION; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; STEREOISOMERISM;

AMINES; BIOCATALYSIS; HUMANS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 84897932244     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: 18790402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2014.02.021     Document Type: Review

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