Alcohol dehydrogenase and use thereof
AssigneeDegussa AG
InventorsThomas Riermeier, Uwe Bornscheuer, Josef Altenbuchner, Petra Hildebrandt
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Abstract
The invention relates to a novel alcohol dehydrogenase (ADHF1) from Pseudomonas fluorescens (DSM 50106) and to functional variants thereof and to a process for selective reduction of ketones to the corresponding alcohols by using such alcohol dehydrogenases.
Claims22
An alcohol dehydrogenase (ADHF1) from Pseudomonas fluorescens (DSM 50106), having the amino acid sequence Seq. Id. No. 1 or an allelic or functional variant thereof or a functional part sequence thereof.
An alcohol dehydrogenase gene from Pseudomonas fluorescens (DSM 50106), having a coding nucleic acid sequence Seq. Id. No. 2 and allelic or functional variants thereof which are more than 50% homologous or part sequences thereof.
An expression system, wherein the host organism is a yeast or a prokaryote.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.