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SUBMITTER: Kovacic F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4856427 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kovacic Filip F Bleffert Florian F Caliskan Muttalip M Wilhelm Susanne S Granzin Joachim J Batra-Safferling Renu R Jaeger Karl-Erich KE
FEBS open bio 20160419 5
Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain 1001 produces an esterase (EstA) that can hydrolyse the racemic methyl ester of β-acetylthioisobutyrate to produce the (D)-enantiomer, which serves as a precursor of captopril, a drug used for treatment of hypertension. We show here that PA2949 from P. aeruginosa PA01, a homologue of EstA, can efficiently be expressed in an enzymatically active form in E. coli. The enzyme is membrane-associated as demonstrated by cell fractionation studies. PA2949 was purified to ho ...[more]