Recombinant Polycistronic Structure of Hydantoinase Process Genes in Escherichia Coli for the Production of Optically Pure D-amino Acids

Overview

Journal Appl Environ Microbiol

Specialties Environmental Health
Microbiology

Date 2007 Jan 16

PMID 17220246

Citations 6

Authors

Ana Isabel Martinez-Gomez

Sergio Martinez-Rodriguez

Josefa Maria Clemente-Jimenez

Joaquin Pozo-Dengra

Felipe Rodriguez-Vico

Francisco Javier Las Heras-Vazquez

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Abstract

Two recombinant reaction systems for the production of optically pure D-amino acids from different D,L-5-monosubstituted hydantoins were constructed. Each system contained three enzymes, two of which were D-hydantoinase and D-carbamoylase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens BQL9. The third enzyme was hydantoin racemase 1 for the first system and hydantoin racemase 2 for the second system, both from A. tumefaciens C58. Each system was formed by using a recombinant Escherichia coli strain with one plasmid harboring three genes coexpressed with one promoter in a polycistronic structure. The D-carbamoylase gene was cloned closest to the promoter in order to obtain the highest level of synthesis of the enzyme, thus avoiding intermediate accumulation, which decreases the reaction rate. Both systems were able to produce 100% conversion and 100% optically pure D-methionine, D-leucine, D-norleucine, D-norvaline, D-aminobutyric acid, D-valine, D-phenylalanine, D-tyrosine, and D-tryptophan from the corresponding hydantoin racemic mixture. For the production of almost all D-amino acids studied in this work, system 1 hydrolyzed the 5-monosubstituted hydantoins faster than system 2.

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