Dehydrogenase and a gene encoding the same
AssigneeMitsubishi Chemical Corporation
InventorsNobuyoshi Esaki, Hisaaki Mihara, Mari Hara, Makoto Ueda
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Abstract
The object of the present invention is to provide a novel dehydrogenase having a property which is different from that of known dehydrogenases. The present invention provides a dehydrogenase having the following physicochemical properties: (1) effect: to produce N-alkyl-L-alanine from pyruvic acid and alkylamine or dialkylamine using NADPH and/or NADH as coenzyme; (2) substrate specificity: to show activity to alkylamine or dialkylamine but not to ammonium; (3) optimal pH when using phenylpyruvic acid and methylamine as substrates is around 10; and (4) when treated at 30 ° C. for 30 minutes, the enzyme is stable at around pH 5 to 10.5.
Claims2
A cyclic amino acid, [1,4]thiazepane-3-carboxylic acid:
A method of producing L-cyclic amino acid, which comprises allowing N-methyl-L-amino acid dehydrogenase having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, or a cell containing the same, a lysate of the cell, or a culture solution obtained by culturing the cell, to act on a cyclic amino acid having a double bond at 1-site represented by the following formula (I):
- wherein A represent an alkyl chain having a chain length of 1 to 6 atoms, which may include at least one hetero atom selected from the group consisting of a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom and a nitrogen atom in the chain or at the terminal thereof, and may be substituted, so as to generate an L-cyclic amino acid represented by the following formula (II):
- wherein A has the same meaning as described above.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.