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Enantioselective bio-hydrolysis of various racemic and meso aromatic epoxides using the recombinant epoxide hydrolase Kau2
Zhao, Wei,Kotik, Michael,Iacazio, Gilles,Archelas, Alain
, p. 1895 - 1908 (2015/06/02)
Abstract Epoxide hydrolase Kau2 overexpressed in Escherichia coli RE3 has been tested with ten different racemic and meso α,β-disubstituted aromatic epoxides. Some of the tested substrates were bi-functional, and most of them are very useful building blocks in synthetic chemistry applications. As a general trend Kau2 proved to be an extremely enantioselective biocatalyst, the diol products and remaining epoxides of the bioconversions being obtained - with two exceptions - in nearly enantiomerically pure form. Furthermore, the reaction times were usually very short (around 1 h, except when stilbene oxides were used), and the use of organic co-solvents was well tolerated, enabling very high substrate concentrations (up to 75 g/L) to be reached. Even extremely sterically demanding epoxides such as cis- and trans-stilbene oxides were transformed on a reasonable time scale. All reactions were successfully conducted on a 1 g preparative scale, generating diol- and epoxide-based chiral synthons with very high enantiomeric excesses and isolated yields close to the theoretical maximum. Thus we have here demonstrated the usefulness and versatility of lyophilized Escherichia coli cells expressing Kau2 epoxide hydrolase as a highly enantioselective biocatalyst for accessing very valuable optically pure aromatic epoxides and diols through kinetic resolution of racemates or desymmetrization of meso epoxides.
A novel enantioselective epoxide hydrolase from Agromyces mediolanus ZJB120203: Cloning, characterization and application
Xue, Feng,Liu, Zhi-Qiang,Zou, Shu-Ping,Wan, Nan-Wei,Zhu, Wen-Yuan,Zhu, Qing,Zheng, Yu-Guo
, p. 409 - 417 (2014/04/03)
A new strain Agromyces mediolanus ZJB120203, capable of enantioselective epoxide hydrolase (EH) activity was isolated employing a newly established colorimetric screening and chiral GC analysis method. The partial nucleotide sequence of an epoxide hydrolase (AmEH) gene from A. mediolanus ZJB120203 was obtained by PCR using degenerate primers designed based on the conserved domains of EHs. Subsequently, an open reading frame containing 1167 bp and encoding 388 amino acids polypeptide were identified. Expression of AmEH was carried out in Escherichia coli and purification was performed by Nickel-affinity chromatography. The purified AmEH had a molecular weight of 43 kDa and showed its optimum pH and temperature at 8.0 and 35 C, respectively. Moreover, this AmEH showed broad substrates specificity toward epoxides. In this study, it is demonstrated that the AmEH could unusually catalyze the hydrolysis of (R)-ECH to produce enantiopure (S)-ECH. Enantiopure (S)-ECH could be obtained with enantiomeric excess (ee) of >99% and yield of 21.5% from 64 mM (R,S)-ECH. It is indicated that AmEH from A. mediolanus is an attractive biocatalyst for the efficient preparation of optically active ECH.
3- and 4-uloses derived from N-acetyl- D -glucosamine: A unique pair of complementary organocatalysts for asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes
Schoeberl, Christof,Jaeger, Volker
supporting information; experimental part, p. 790 - 796 (2012/05/04)
The 4-ulose and the 3-ulose, both derived in two steps from the α-methyl glycoside of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc), act as organocatalysts in the asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes, with unprecedented complementary enantioselectivity. The best results are found with α,β-unsaturated esters as substrates, with enantiomeric ratios up to 90:10 and 11:89, respectively. Copyright
