Production of a perillyl alcohol dehydrogenase by site-directed mutagenesis of a benzyl alcohol dehydrogenase

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作者
Gillooly, DJ [1 ]
Fewson, CA [1 ]
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[1] Univ Glasgow, Inst Biomed & Life Sci, Div Biochem & Mol Biol, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
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10.1023/A:1005306825491
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Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Benzyl alcohol dehydrogenase from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus oxidises a wide range of aromatic and other cyclic alcohols and it has high specificity constants for these substrates, but it does not oxidise short- or long-chain aliphatic alcohols. Mutation of an active-site arginine to a histidine can switch the substrate specificity of the enzyme so that it has a very much greater preference for perillyl alcohol than for benzyl alcohol.
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