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Improvement of the activity of arylmalonate decarboxylase by random mutagenesis.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology - 1 Dec 2006
Terao Y, Miyamoto K, Ohta H
Abstract excerpt
Arylmalonate decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.76) catalyzes enantioselective decarboxylation of alpha-aryl-alpha-methylmalonates to give optically pure alpha-arylpropionates. Recently, we have succeeded in creating a double mutant enzyme that gave opposite enantionmer as the product. Unfortunately, however, the activity of the mutant decreased far lower than that of the native enzyme. Thus, we performed the directed...
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