The invention provides yeast strains, and polypeptides encoded by genes of such yeast strains, that have enantiospecific internal epoxide hydrolase activity. The invention also features nucleic acid molecules encoding such polypeptides, vectors containing such nucleic acid molecules, and cells containing such vectors. Also embraced by the invention are methods for obtaining optically active internal epoxides and corresponding optically active internal diols.
本发明提供了具有对映选择性内部环氧
水解酶活性的酵母菌株和由这些酵母菌株的
基因编码的
多肽。本发明还涵盖编码这种
多肽的核酸分子,含有这种核酸分子的载体以及含有这种载体的细胞。本发明还包括获得光学活性内部
环氧化物及其相应的光学活性内部二醇的方法。