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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1997
Filed:
May. 11, 1995
Michael J Conder, Harrisonburg, VA (US);
John A Rambosek, Seattle, WA (US);
Phyllis C McAda, Woodinville, WA (US);
Christopher D Reeves, Woodinville, WA (US);
Gist-Brocades B.V., , NL;
Abstract
Important intermediates for preparing cephalosporin antibiotics, 7-amino-cephalosporanic acid (7-ACA) and 7-aminodeacetylcephalosporanic acid (7-ADAC), are prepared by a novel bioprocess in which a transformed Penicillium chrysogenum strain is cultured in the presence of an adipate feedstock to produce adipoyl-6-APA (6-amino penicillanic acid); followed by the in situ expression of the following genes with which the P. chrysogenum has been transformed: 1) an expandase gene, whose expression product converts the adipoyl-6-APA by ring expansion to adipoyl-7-ADCA; 2) an hydroxylase gene whose expression product converts the 3-methyl side chain of adipoyl-7-ADCA to 3-hydroxymethyl, to give the first product, 7-aminodeacetylcephalosporanic acid (7-ADAC); and 3) an acetyltransferase gene whose expression product converts the 3-hydroxymethyl side chain to the 3-acetyloxymethyl side chain of 7-ACA. The final product, 7-ACA, is then prepared by cleavage of the adipoyl side chain using an adipoyl acylase. The entire synthesis, accordingly, is carried out using bioprocesses, and is efficient and economical.