A high throughput screening strategy for the assessment of nitrile-hydrolyzing activity towards the production of enantiopure β-hydroxy acids
摘要:
Nitrile hydrolysing enzymes have found wide use in the pharmaceutical industry for the production of fine chemicals. This work presents a strategy that facilitates the rapid identification of bacterial isolates demonstrating nitrile hydrolysing activity. The strategy incorporates toxicity, starvation and induction studies along with subsequent colorimetric screening for activity, further focusing the assessment towards the substrates of interest. This high-throughput strategy uses a 96 well plate system, and has enabled the rapid biocatalytic screening of 256 novel bacterial isolates towards beta-hydroxynitriles. Results demonstrate the strategy's potential to rapidly assess a variety of beta-hydroxynitriles including aliphatic, aromatic and dinitriles. A whole cell catalyst Rhodococcus erythropolis SET1 was identified and found to catalyse the hydrolysis of 3-hydroxybutyronitrile with remarkably high enantioselectivity under mild conditions, to afford (S)-3-hydroxybutyric acid in 42% yield and >99.9% ee. The biocatalytic capability of this strain including the variation of parameters such as temperature and time were further investigated and all results indicate the presence of a highly enantioselective if not enantiospecific nitrilase enzyme within the microbial whole cell. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Stirring mixtures of β-hydroxynitriles with manganese dioxide, deposited onto silica gel for a few days at room temperature resulted in the formation of the corresponding amides in fair to good yields. The unprecedented conversion of 3-hydroxyglutarodinitrile into the corresponding monoamide has been performed by this methodology.
A high throughput screening strategy for the assessment of nitrile-hydrolyzing activity towards the production of enantiopure β-hydroxy acids
作者:Tracey M. Coady、Lee V. Coffey、Catherine O‘Reilly、Erica B. Owens、Claire M. Lennon
DOI:10.1016/j.molcatb.2013.08.001
日期:2013.12
Nitrile hydrolysing enzymes have found wide use in the pharmaceutical industry for the production of fine chemicals. This work presents a strategy that facilitates the rapid identification of bacterial isolates demonstrating nitrile hydrolysing activity. The strategy incorporates toxicity, starvation and induction studies along with subsequent colorimetric screening for activity, further focusing the assessment towards the substrates of interest. This high-throughput strategy uses a 96 well plate system, and has enabled the rapid biocatalytic screening of 256 novel bacterial isolates towards beta-hydroxynitriles. Results demonstrate the strategy's potential to rapidly assess a variety of beta-hydroxynitriles including aliphatic, aromatic and dinitriles. A whole cell catalyst Rhodococcus erythropolis SET1 was identified and found to catalyse the hydrolysis of 3-hydroxybutyronitrile with remarkably high enantioselectivity under mild conditions, to afford (S)-3-hydroxybutyric acid in 42% yield and >99.9% ee. The biocatalytic capability of this strain including the variation of parameters such as temperature and time were further investigated and all results indicate the presence of a highly enantioselective if not enantiospecific nitrilase enzyme within the microbial whole cell. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A convenient preparation of optically pure 3-hydroxyglutaric acid derivatives
作者:R. Leclerc、D. Uguen
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4039(00)73032-2
日期:1994.3
The diastereomeric monoamides resulting from condensation of (L)-cysteine with 3-hydroxyglutarodinitrile have been separted by chromatography then transformed in a few steps into either (+) or (-) methyl ester of 4-cyano-3-hydroxybutyric acid.