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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-9-29
pubmed:abstractText
To demonstrate the usefulness of an engineered papain nitrile hydratase as a biocatalyst, a peptide amidrazone was prepared by incubation of the nitrile MeOCO-Phe-Alanitrile with the Gln19Glu papain mutant in the presence of salicylic hydrazide as a nucleophile. The amidrazone results from nucleophilic attack by salicylic hydrazide at the imino carbon of the thioimidate adduct formed between the enzyme and the peptide nitrile substrate. Compared to wild-type enzyme, the engineered nitrile hydratase causes a better than 4000-fold increase in the rate of amidrazone formation and yields a product of much higher purity. The advantages over other nitrile-hydrolyzing enzymes and current limitations of the papain nitrile hydratase are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0014-5793
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
433
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
78-82
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Synthesis of amidrazones using an engineered papain nitrile hydratase.
pubmed:affiliation
Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Montreal, Que.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't