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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard Anthony Wisdom, Cambridge, GB;
Caroline Susan Lee, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Robert Christopher Brown, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Chirotech Technology, Ltd., , GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12P / ; C12P / ; C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435280 ; 435 43 ; 435 87 ; 435121 ; 435106 ;
Abstract
A lactamase enzyme having good stability, capable of hydrolysing an enatiomer of the bicyclic lactam, 2-azabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-3-one, to give (-) lactam and (+) amino acid, has been found in a strain of Comamonas acidivorans. The enzyme has been isolated and cloned, and its structure identified.