Genomic data mining reveals the transaminase repertoire of () strain GS115 and supports a systematic nomenclature.

Transaminases are an industrially important class of enzyme, due to their ability to catalyse amination reactions for production of chiral amines, and are key building blocks of small molecule pharmaceuticals. We analysed the genome of strain GS115 of the methylotrophic yeast , formerly known as , to identify the transaminase genes and propose a systematic nomenclature based on both phylogeny and structuro-functional features. is an increasingly attractive industrial host cell due to its ability to grow to high biomass, up to 60% wet cell weight by volume, using methanol as carbon source and inducer of transgene expression.