申请人:Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
公开号:US20030113882A1
公开(公告)日:2003-06-19
Purified &bgr;-amino acids are of considerable interest in the preparation of pharmacologically active compounds and industrial precursors. Although enantiomerically pure &bgr;-amino acids can be produced by standard chemical synthesis, this traditional approach is time consuming, requires expensive starting materials, and results in a racemic mixture which must be purified further. However, DNA molecules encoding lysine 2,3-aminomutase can be used to prepare &bgr;-amino acids by methods that avoid the pitfalls of chemical synthesis. The present invention provides a method of producing enantiomerically pure &bgr;-amino acids from &agr;-amino acids comprising catalyzing the conversion of an &agr;-amino acid to a corresponding &bgr;-amino acid by utilizing a lysine 2,3-aminomutase as the catalyst.
纯化的&bgr;-氨基酸在制备药理活性化合物和工业前体方面具有相当大的意义。虽然对映体纯的&bgr;-氨基酸可以通过标准化学合成法生产,但这种传统方法耗时长,需要昂贵的起始原料,而且会产生外消旋混合物,必须进一步纯化。然而,编码赖氨酸 2,3-氨基转化酶的 DNA 分子可以用来制备 &bgr;-氨基酸,其方法避免了化学合成的缺陷。本发明提供了一种从&agr;-氨基酸制备对映体纯&bgr;-氨基酸的方法,包括利用赖氨酸 2,3-氨基转化酶作为催化剂,催化&agr;-氨基酸转化为相应的&bgr;-氨基酸。