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SUBMITTER: Winkler CK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4034509 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Winkler Christoph K CK Clay Dorina D van Heerden Esta E Faber Kurt K
Biotechnology and bioengineering 20130710 12
Eleven flavoproteins from the old yellow enzyme family were found to catalyze the disproportionation ("dismutation") of conjugated enones. Incomplete conversions, which were attributed to enzyme inhibition by the co-product phenol could be circumvented via in situ co-product removal by scavenging the phenol using the polymeric adsorbent MP-carbonate. The optimized system allowed to reduce an alkene activated by ester groups in a "coupled-substrate" approach via nicotinamide-free hydrogen transfe ...[more]