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Heterologous expression, purification, and characterization of cytochrome P450sca-2 and mutants with improved solubility in Escherichia coli.
Protein expression and purification - 1 Jun 2009
Li Pan, Guan Hong, Li Jin, Lin Zhanglin
Abstract excerpt
Pravastatin, an important cholesterol lowering drug, is currently produced by hydroxylation of mevastatin (ML-236B) with Streptomyces carbophilus, in which the enzyme P450sca-2 plays a key role. Little information on the recombinant expression of this enzyme is available. As it is of industrial interest to develop an alternative simplified enzymatic process for pravastatin, as a first step, further study on the...
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