Biocatalytic Asymmetric Phosphorylation Catalyzed by Recombinant Glycerate-2-Kinase

Autor: Markus Obkircher, Bernhard Schoenenberger, Birhanu M. Kinfu, Norman Hardt, Wolfgang R. Streit, Roland Wohlgemuth, Jennifer Chow
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology. 18(15)
ISSN: 1439-7633
Popis: The efficient synthesis of pure d-glycerate-2-phosphate is of great interest due to its importance as an enzyme substrate and metabolite. Therefore, we investigated a straightforward one-step biocatalytic phosphorylation of glyceric acid. Glycerate-2-kinase from Thermotoga maritima was expressed in Escherichia coli, allowing easy purification. The selective glycerate-2-kinase-catalyzed phosphorylation was followed by 31 P NMR and showed excellent enantioselectivity towards phosphorylation of the d-enantiomer of glyceric acid. This straightforward phosphorylation reaction and subsequent product isolation enabled the preparation of enantiomerically pure d-glycerate 2-phosphate. This phosphorylation reaction, using recombinant glycerate-2-kinase, yielded d-glycerate 2-phosphate in fewer reaction steps and with higher purity than chemical routes.
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