Title
Engineering alcohol oxidases for substrate scope and their application in flow and cascade biocatalysis
Conference Dates
September 15-19, 2019
Abstract
Alcohol oxidases have significant advantages over alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) for biocatalytic oxidation of alcohols: they don’t require addition of (expensive) nicotinamide cofactors (or a recycling system for cofactor regeneration) and the catalytic reaction is irreversible. Although alcohol oxidases generate hydrogen peroxide when they turn over, this issue can be alleviated by addition of catalase, which, not only removes the peroxide, but also creates more oxygen for cofactor regeneration. Alcohol oxidases are perceived to have a limited substrate scope preventing their wider use in synthesis. Thus, we present the engineering of two alcohol oxidases for increased substrate scope, one for the selective oxidation of primary alcohols and one for secondary alcohol oxidation.
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Recommended Citation
Rachel Heath, Matthew Thompson, Jeremy Ramsden, William Finnigan, Nicholas Turner, and Sebastian Cosgrove, "Engineering alcohol oxidases for substrate scope and their application in flow and cascade biocatalysis" in "Enzyme Engineering XXV", Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA John Wong, Pfizer, USA Eds, ECI Symposium Series, (2019). https://dc.engconfintl.org/enzyme_xxv/34