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MOLECULAR CATALYSIS
Volume 553, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2023.113713
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Phenylalanine dehydrogenases; Genome mining; Thermostability; Chiral intermediates; 2-chloro-L-phenylalanine
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This study identified a novel phenylalanine dehydrogenase (QtPDH) with high catalytic efficiency and thermal stability, making it a promising biocatalyst for industrial production of bulky aromatic primary amines. QtPDH exhibited a broader substrate specificity and significantly longer half-life compared to BbPDH.
Phenylalanine dehydrogenases (PDHs) play an important role in pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries due to their ability to produce primary amines via asymmetrically reductive amination. However, the industrial application of PDHs are often limited by their undesirable stability, narrow substrate specificity, especially for unnatural substrates. Here, a novel PDH from Quasibacillus thermotolerans (QtPDH) was identified by gene mining using BbPDH from Bacillus badius as a probe. QtPDH exhibits prominent thermal stability, specifically a half-life of 23 days at 30 degrees C and pH 8.5, about 300 times longer than that of BbPDH. QtPDH could catalyze various phenylpyruvate analogues, including ethyl 2-oxo-4-phenylbutyrate and l-phenylglycinol, as well as bulky 3-(naphthalen-1-yl)-2-oxopropanoic acid with a reductive amination specific activity of 1.90 Umg(-1). Catalyzed by QtPDH in couple with BmGDH, efficient production of 2-chloro-l-phenylalanine was achieved at 1.0 M 3-(2-chlorophenyl)-2-oxopropionic acid with > 99 % conversion, 99 % ee, and space-time yield of 30.46 gL-1h(-1). Our results suggest that this newly identified QtPDH features high catalytic efficiency and thermostability, and is a promising biocatalyst for the industrial productions of bulky aromatic primary amines.
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