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JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 133, Issue 2, Pages 273-286Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jam.15529
Keywords
mandelic acid degradation pathway; mandelate racemase; S-mandelate dehydrogenase; benzoylformate decarboxylase; benzaldehyde dehydrogenase
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFA0904900]
- Tianjin Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Capacity Improvement Project [TSBICIP-PTJS-003-04]
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Mandelic acid and its derivatives are important chemical synthetic blocks widely used in drug synthesis and stereochemistry research. The mandelic acid degradation pathway has been extensively identified and analyzed in nature, and has a wide range of applications in biotechnology.
Mandelic acid and its derivatives are an important class of chemical synthetic blocks, which is widely used in drug synthesis and stereochemistry research. In nature, mandelic acid degradation pathway has been widely identified and analysed as a representative pathway of aromatic compounds degradation. The most studied mandelic acid degradation pathway from Pseudomonas putida consists of mandelate racemase, S-mandelate dehydrogenase, benzoylformate decarboxylase, benzaldehyde dehydrogenase and downstream benzoic acid degradation pathways. Because of the ability to catalyse various reactions of aromatic substrates, pathway enzymes have been widely used in biocatalysis, kinetic resolution, chiral compounds synthesis or construction of new metabolic pathways. In this paper, the physiological significance and the existing range of the mandelic acid degradation pathway were introduced first. Then each of the enzymes in the pathway is reviewed one by one, including the researches on enzymatic properties and the applications in biotechnology as well as efforts that have been made to modify the substrate specificity or improving catalytic activity by enzyme engineering to adapt different applications. The composition of the important metabolic pathway of bacterial mandelic acid degradation pathway as well as the researches and applications of pathway enzymes is summarized in this review for the first time.
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