| Literature DB >> 12838375 |
M Kataoka1, K Kita, M Wada, Y Yasohara, J Hasegawa, S Shimizu.
Abstract
Chiral alcohols are useful intermediates for many pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Enzymatic asymmetric reduction of prochiral carbonyl compounds is a promising method for producing chiral alcohols. There have been many attempts to construct bioreduction systems for the industrial production of chiral alcohols. This review focuses on the establishment of a novel bioreduction system using an Escherichia coli transformant co-expressing genes for carbonyl reductase and cofactor-regeneration enzyme. This bioreduction system could be useful as an all-purpose catalyst for asymmetric reduction reactions.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12838375 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-003-1347-y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Microbiol Biotechnol ISSN: 0175-7598 Impact factor: 4.813