Jiangnan University

Guochao Xu

Ye Ni

Jieyu Zhou

Yue Wang

Wei Dai

Zhe Dou

Ruizhi Han

Jinjun Dong

Cheng Zhu

The present invention discloses a cyclohexenecarboxylate ester hydrolase, and a mutant, a coding gene, an expression vector, recombinant bacterium and use thereof. The cyclohexenecarboxylate ester hydrolase AcEst1 and its mutant of the present invention have the function of enantioselectively resolving methyl 3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylate with high efficiency to prepare optically active (S)-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid. When the substrate concentration is as high as 2000 mM (about 280 g/L), the optical purity of the product is higher than 99%, and the substrate/catalyst is as high as 3500 g/g. As compared with other preparation methods, the product prepared by the method of the present invention has high concentration and high optical purity, the catalytic efficiency is high, the reaction conditions are mild. Furthermore, the method is environmentally friendly, simple in operation and easy for industrial scale-up, thus has a good prospect of application in industry.

Cyclohexenecarboxylate ester hydrolase, and mutant, coding gene, expression vector, recombinant bacterium and use thereof

The invention discloses an alcohol dehydrogenase mutant and use thereof. The alcohol dehydrogenase mutant of the present invention has high thermal stability and enables high catalytic efficiency and high conversion rate (i.e. space time yield) in the asymmetric reduction of prochiral diaryl ketones to produce chiral diaryl alcohols. Therefore, the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant of the present invention has extremely high prospect of application in the production of chiral diaryl alcohols, such as (S)-(4-chlorophenyl)-(pyridin-2-yl)-methanol, (R)-(4-chlorophenyl)-(pyridin-2-yl)-methanol.

Alcohol dehydrogenase mutant and use thereof

The invention discloses a strain ofand use thereof in the production of chiral 3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid. Its taxonomic name issp., which is deposited on Jan. 21, 2019 at the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center, under accession number CGMCC No. 17220. Using thestrain of the invention to produce chiral methyl 3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylate, the resulting methyl (S)-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylate has an optical purity of 99% or more, and the catalyst has good stability, mild reaction condition and can withstand high concentrations of substrate and product. Using the resolution process of the invention, (S)-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid with high optical purity and high concentration can be simply and efficiently obtained, and the process is energy-saving and environmentally friendly, and the high-concentration of product is beneficial to downstream product recovery process. The invention provides an efficient method for production of (S)-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid, and has a good industrial application prospect.

Acinetobacter and use thereof in production of chiral 3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid

Disclosed is an alcohol dehydrogenase mutant and application thereof in cofactor regeneration, and belongs to the technical fields of enzyme engineering and bioengineering. The alcohol dehydrogenase mutant is obtained by mutating valine at position 84 and/or tyrosine at position 127 in alcohol dehydrogenase having an original amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID No. 1. The alcohol dehydrogenase mutant has high activity for a variety of alcohol co-substrates, and can catalyze these enzyme co-substrates for the regeneration of cofactor NADPH. Compared with the wild-type alcohol dehydrogenase KpADH, the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant has higher activity and catalytic efficiency, and for co-substrate 1,4-butanediol, its kvalue can be up to 75.9 min, its k/Kvalue can be up to 2009 min&#xb7;M, and its Kvalue can be as low as 11.3 mM. Therefore, the alcohol dehydrogenase mutant has a higher value in industrial application.

Alcohol dehydrogenase mutant and application thereof in cofactor regeneration

The present disclosure discloses an alcohol dehydrogenase mutant and application thereof in synthesis of diaryl chiral alcohols, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. The alcohol dehydrogenase mutant of the present disclosure has excellent catalytic activity and stereoselectivity, and may efficiently catalyze the preparation of a series of chiral diaryl alcohols in R- and S-configurations. By coupling alcohol dehydrogenase of the present disclosure to glucose dehydrogenase or formate dehydrogenase, the synthesis of chiral diaryl alcohol intermediates of various antihistamines may be achieved. Compared with the prior art, a method for preparing diaryl chiral alcohols through asymmetric catalytic reduction using the alcohol dehydrogenase of the present disclosure has the advantages of simple and convenient operation, high substrate concentration, complete reaction and high product purity, and has great industrial application prospects.

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