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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1992
Guillermo A Iacobucci, Atlanta, GA (US);
Daniel J Brose, Bend, OR (US);
Roderick J Ray, Bend, OR (US);
Paul van Eikeren, Bend, OR (US);
The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method for the enzymatic synthesis of a peptide. A protected peptide having a C-terminal carboxylate group or a protected, N-acyl amino acid having an alpha carboxylate group is reacted with a protected peptide having an N-terminal ammonium group or a protected amino acid having an alpha ammonium group in the presence of a condensation enzyme under conditions in which the carboxylate group and the ammonium group condense to form a protected, uncharged, peptide product. This peptide product is transported across a water-immiscible hydrophobic phase into an aqueous product phase and prevented from back diffusing across the water-immiscible hydrophobic phase. The peptide product can be converted, chemically or enzymatically, to a charged species that cannot back diffuse across the water-immiscible phase into the aqueous reaction phase. The water-immiscible hydrophobic phase is an ion rejection membrane separating the aqueous reaction phase from the product phase creating oil/water interfaces with each of the aqueous phases.