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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2020
Zhejiang University of Technology, Zhejiang, CN;
Yaping Xue, Zhejiang, CN;
Neng Xiong, Zhejiang, CN;
Qian Li, Zhejiang, CN;
Yuguo Zheng, Zhejiang, CN;
ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Hangzhou, CN;
Abstract
The present invention provides a nitrilase mutant and application thereof in the synthesis of 1-cyanocyclohexyl acetic acid, the nitrilase mutant is obtained by mutating one or two of the amino acids at position 180 and 205 of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 2. In the present invention, by semi-rational design and protein molecular modification, the specific enzyme activity of the nitrilase double mutant AcN-G180D/A205C was increased by up to 1.6 folds, and the conversion rate>99%. And the reaction time was shortened to a quarter of the original using the recombinantcontaining the nitrilase mutant to hydrolyze 1-cyanocyclohexylacetonitrile at high temperature (50° C.). Therefore, the mutants obtained by the present invention have a good application prospect in efficiently catalyzing 1-cyanocyclohexylacetonitrile to synthesize gabapentin intermediate, 1-cyanocyclohexyl acetic acid.