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- Title
Reductive enzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution affording 115 g/L (S)-2-phenylpropanol.
- Authors
Rapp, Christian; Pival-Marko, Simone; Tassano, Erika; Nidetzky, Bernd; Kratzer, Regina
- Abstract
Background: Published biocatalytic routes for accessing enantiopure 2-phenylpropanol using oxidoreductases afforded maximal product titers of only 80 mM. Enzyme deactivation was identified as the major limitation and was attributed to adduct formation of the aldehyde substrate with amino acid residues of the reductase. Results: A single point mutant of Candida tenuis xylose reductase (CtXR D51A) with very high catalytic efficiency (43·103 s−1 M−1) for (S)-2-phenylpropanal was found. The enzyme showed high enantioselectivity for the (S)-enantiomer but was deactivated by 0.5 mM substrate within 2 h. A whole-cell biocatalyst expressing the engineered reductase and a yeast formate dehydrogenase for NADH-recycling provided substantial stabilization of the reductase. The relatively slow in situ racemization of 2-phenylpropanal and the still limited biocatalyst stability required a subtle adjustment of the substrate-to-catalyst ratio. A value of 3.4 gsubstrate/gcell-dry-weight was selected as a suitable compromise between product ee and the conversion ratio. A catalyst loading of 40 gcell-dry-weight was used to convert 1 M racemic 2-phenylpropanal into 843 mM (115 g/L) (S)-phenylpropanol with 93.1% ee. Conclusion: The current industrial production of profenols mainly relies on hydrolases. The bioreduction route established here represents an alternative method for the production of profenols that is competitive with hydrolase-catalyzed kinetic resolutions.
- Subjects
KINETIC resolution; AMINO acid residues; OXIDOREDUCTASES; HYDROLASES; DNA adducts; ENZYMES; NADH dehydrogenase; ALDEHYDES
- Publication
BMC Biotechnology, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1472-6750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12896-021-00715-5