Amino alcohol dehydrogenase converts keto alcohol to amino alcohol and amino alcohol to keto alcohol

A purified amino alcohol dehydrogenase having the following physicochemical properties:

• (a) NAD(H)-dependent;
• (b) a molecular weight of a part of a subunit of about 46,000 Da when determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and of the whole molecule of about 100,000 Da when determined by gel filtration;
• (c) substrate specificity, such that it acts on amino alcohols, amines, and amino acids in the presence of NAD+ to produce keto alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, and keto acids, and acts on keto alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, and keto acids in the presence of NADH and ammonium ions to produce amino alcohols, amines, and amino acids;
• (d) thermostability, such that it is relatively stable at 30° C. and inactivated at 40° C. or higher when heated at pH 7.0 for 30 min;
• (e) optimum temperature of about 30° C. in reductive amination at pH 7.0;
• (f) optimum pH of 10.0 in oxidative deamination and of 7.0 in reductive animation;
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• (g) stability, such that its activity is stable in the presence of glycerol, serinol, or phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride.