Article
Increasing the synthesis/hydrolysis ratio of aminoacylase 1 by site-directed mutagenesis.
Biochimie - 1 Jan 2010
Wardenga Rainer, Lindner Holger A, Hollmann Frank, Thum Oliver, Bornscheuer Uwe
Abstract excerpt
Aminoacylase-1 from pig kidney (pAcy1) catalyzes the highly stereoselective acylation of amino acids, a useful conversion for the preparation of optically pure N-acyl-l-amino acids. The kinetic of this thermodynamically controlled conversion is determined by maximal velocities for synthesis (V(mS)) and hydrolysis (V(mH)) of the N-acyl-l-amino acid. To investigate which parameter affects maximal velocities, we...
Topics
- Acylation
- Amidohydrolases
- Amino Acids
- Animals
- Biocatalysis
- Escherichia coli
- Humans
- Hydrolysis
- Models, Molecular
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation
- Nitrogen
