Lactic Acid from CO: A Carbon Capture and Utilization Strategy Based on a Biocatalytic Approach.

The EU low-carbon economy aims to reduce the level of CO emission in the EU to 80% by 2050. High efforts are required to achieve this goal, where successful CCU (Carbon Capture and Utilization) technologies will have a high impact. Biocatalysts offer a greener alternative to chemical catalysts for the development of CCU strategies since biocatalysis conforms 10 of the 12 principles of green chemistry.

Cloning, expression, and one-step purification/immobilization of two carbohydrate-binding module-tagged alcohol dehydrogenases.

Background: The feasibility of biochemical transformation processes is usually greatly dependent on biocatalysts cost. Therefore, immobilizing and reusing biocatalysts is an approach to be considered to bring biotransformations closer to industrial feasibility, since it does not only allow to reuse enzymes but can also improve their stability towards several reaction conditions. Carbohydrate-Binding Modules (CBM) are well-described domains involved in substrate binding which have been already used as purification tags.

Synthesis of a precursor of D-fagomine by immobilized fructose-6-phosphate aldolase.

Fructose-6-phosphate aldolase (FSA) is an important enzyme for the C-C bond-forming reactions in organic synthesis. The present work is focused on the synthesis of a precursor of D-fagomine catalyzed by a mutant FSA. The biocatalyst has been immobilized onto several supports: magnetic nanoparticle clusters (mNC), cobalt-chelated agarose (Co-IDA), amino-functionalized agarose (MANA-agarose) and glyoxal-agarose, obtaining a 29.

pyruvate decarboxylase production process development: Cloning in , fed-batch culture and purification.

Pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) is responsible for the decarboxylation of pyruvate, producing acetaldehyde and carbon dioxide and is of high interest for industrial applications. PDC is a very powerful tool in the enzymatic synthesis of chiral amines by combining it with transaminases when alanine is used as amine donor. However, one of the main drawback that hampers its use in biocatalysis is its production and the downstream processing on scale.

Data on the identification and characterization of by-products from N-Cbz-3-aminopropanal and t-BuOOH/H2O2 chemical reaction in chloroperoxidase-catalyzed oxidations.

This data article is related to the subject of a publication in Process Biochemistry, entitled "Chloroperoxidase-catalyzed amino alcohol oxidation: Substrate specificity and novel strategy for the synthesis of N-Cbz-3-aminopropanal" (Masdeu et al., 2016) [1]. Here, the products of the chemical reaction involving the amino aldehyde (N-Cbz-3-aminopropanal) and peroxides (tert-butyl hydroperoxide and H2O2) are characterized by NMR.

Synthesis of the kyotorphin precursor benzoyl-L-tyrosine-L-argininamide with immobilized α-chymotrypsin in sequential batch with enzyme reactivation.

α-Chymotrypsin was immobilized in activated agarose support and the stability of the biocatalyst was assessed in three polar organic solvents, namely, ethanol, diglyme, and acetonitrile. Ethanol was the solvent in which the stability of the enzyme was higher and was then selected to perform the synthesis of the kyotorphin derivative benzoyl-tyrosine argininamide, evaluating enzyme reactivation after synthesis. Substrates for reaction were benzoyl tyrosine ethyl ester and argininamide, the reaction being performed under kinetic control.

From amino alcohol to aminopolyol: one-pot multienzyme oxidation and aldol addition.

In this work, the successful coupling of enzymatic oxidation and aldol addition reactions for the synthesis of a Cbz-aminopolyol from a Cbz-amino alcohol was achieved for the first time in a multienzymatic one-pot system. The two-step cascade reaction consisted of the oxidation of Cbz-ethanolamine to Cbz-glycinal catalyzed by chloroperoxidase from the fungus Caldariomyces fumago and aldol addition of dihydroxyacetone phosphate to Cbz-glycinal catalyzed by rhamnulose-1-phosphate aldolase expressed as a recombinant enzyme in Escherichia coli, yielding (3R,4S)-5-{[(benzyloxy)carbonyl]amino}-5-deoxy-1-O-phosphonopent-2-ulose. Tools of enzymatic immobilization, reactor configurations, and modification of the reaction medium were applied to highly increase the production of the target compound.

Immobilized L-aspartate ammonia-lyase from Bacillus sp. YM55-1 as biocatalyst for highly concentrated L-aspartate synthesis.

L-aspartate ammonia-lyase from Bacillus sp. YM55-1 (AspB, EC 4.3.

Immobilization of Escherichia coli containing ω-transaminase activity in LentiKats®.

Whole Escherichia coli cells overexpressing ω-transaminase (ω-TA) and immobilized cells entrapped in LentiKats® were used as biocatalysts in the asymmetric synthesis of the aromatic chiral amines 1-phenylethylamine (PEA) and 3-amino-1-phenylbutane (APB). Whole cells were permeabilized with different concentrations of cetrimonium bromide (CTAB) and ethanol; the best results were obtained with CTAB 0.1% which resulted in an increase in reaction rate by 40% compared to the whole cells.

Rational nanoconjugation improves biocatalytic performance of enzymes: aldol addition catalyzed by immobilized rhamnulose-1-phosphate aldolase.

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are attractive materials for the immobilization of enzymes due to several advantages such as high enzyme loading, absence of internal diffusion limitations, and Brownian motion in solution, compared to the conventional immobilization onto porous macroscopic supports. The affinity of AuNPs to different groups present at the protein surface enables direct enzyme binding to the nanoparticle without the need of any coupling agent. Enzyme activity and stability appear to be improved when the biocatalyst is immobilized onto AuNPs.

Inclusion bodies of fuculose-1-phosphate aldolase as stable and reusable biocatalysts.

Fuculose-1-phosphate aldolase (FucA) has been produced in Escherichia coli as active inclusion bodies (IBs) in batch cultures. The activity of insoluble FucA has been modulated by a proper selection of producing strain, culture media, and process conditions. In some cases, when an optimized defined medium was used, FucA IBs were more active (in terms of specific activity) than the soluble protein version obtained in the same process with a conventional defined medium, supporting the concept that solubility and conformational quality are independent protein parameters.

Ceramic microsystem incorporating a microreactor with immobilized biocatalyst for enzymatic spectrophotometric assays.

Low-temperature cofired ceramics (LTCC) technology is a versatile fabrication technique used to construct microflow systems. It permits the integration of several unitary operations (pretreatment, separation, (bio)chemical reaction, and detection stage) of an analytical process in a modular or monolithic way. Moreover, because of its compatibility with biological material, LTCC is adequate for analytical applications based on enzymatic reactions.

Influence of secondary reactions on the synthetic efficiency of DHAP-aldolases.

The effect of secondary reactions on DHAP-dependent aldolase stereoselective synthesis yields is reported. The fuculose-1-phosphate aldolase catalyzed synthesis between DHAP and Cbz-S-alaninal has been chosen as case study. It has been demonstrated that DHAP is not only chemically degraded in the reaction medium, but also enzymatically.

Influence of induction and operation mode on recombinant rhamnulose 1-phosphate aldolase production by Escherichia coli using the T5 promoter.

Fed-batch culture techniques were employed to grow Escherichia coli at high-cell densities for the intracellular production of a recombinant rhamnulose 1-phosphate aldolase (RhuA) under the transcriptional control of the strong promoter T5, using a commercially available expression system (E. coli strain M15 and plasmid vector pQE40). A predetermined exponential feeding strategy at constant specific growth rate was selected to maintain carbon source limited growth using a defined medium.