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And Β-Amino Acids Characterization of amino acid ammonia lyases & echnologies aminomutases for the production of chiral α- and Key T Key β-amino acids Schlüsseltechnologien Alana Dreßen 133 Characterization of amino acid ammonia lyases & aminomutases of amino acid ammonia lyases Characterization Member of the Helmholtz Association Member of the Alana Dreßen Schlüsseltechnologien / Schlüsseltechnologien / Key Technologies Key Technologies Band/ Volume 133 Band/ Volume 133 ISBN 978-3-95806-176-7 ISBN 978-3-95806-176-7 Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich Reihe Schlüsseltechnologien / Key Technologies Band / Volume 133 Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Institute of Bio- and Geosciences Biotechnology (IBG-1) Characterization of amino acid ammonia lyases & aminomutases for the production of chiral α- and β-amino acids Alana Dreßen Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich Reihe Schlüsseltechnologien / Key Technologies Band / Volume 133 ISSN 1866-1807 ISBN 978-3-95806-176-7 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. 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List of abbreviations aa amino acid ACN acetonitrile AI autoinduction AL ammonia lyase AM aminomutase AtPAL phenylalanine ammonia lyase from Arabidopsis thaliana bp base pair CA trans-cinnamic acid CCE crude cell extract CcTAM tyrosine aminomutase from Chondromyces crocatus CDS coding sequence CFU colony forming units CLEA cross linked enzyme aggregates DCW dry cell weight ddH2O double deionized water DNA deoxyribonucleic acid DSP downstream processing E. coli Escherichia coli ee enantiomeric excess FDC ferulic acid decarboxylase fw forward HAL histidine ammonia lyase His6 hexahistidine fusion tag IMAC immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography kb kilobases iv kDa kilo Dalton LB Lysogeny broth L-Phe L-phenylalanine L-Tyr L-tyrosine min minutes NMR nuclear magnetic resonance ORF open reading frame PcPAL phenylalanine ammonia lyase from Petroselinum crispum PCR polymerase chain reaction PKU phenylketonuria PMMA polymethylmethacrylate RcTAL tyrosine ammonia lyase from Rhodobacter capsulatus rpm rotations per minute RsTAL tyrosine ammonia lyase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides RT room temperature RtPAL phenylalanine ammonia lyase from Rhodosporidium toruloides rv reverse SDS-PAGE sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis SgTAM tyrosine aminomutase from Streptomyces globisporus STY space-time-yield TcaPAM phenylalanine aminomutase from Taxus canadensis TchPAM phenylalanine aminomutase from Taxus chinensis U unit v/v volume/volume w/v weight/volume wt wild type v Table of contents 1 Abstract ................................................................................................... 1 1.1 English ................................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Deutsch ............................................................................................................... 2 2 Introduction ............................................................................................. 4 2.1 Biocatalysis ......................................................................................................... 4 2.1.1 Enzyme preparation ............................................................................................. 5 2.1.2 Enzyme immobilization techniques ..................................................................... 6 2.1.3 Reactor systems ................................................................................................... 8 2.1.4 Productivity measures of biocatalytic processes ............................................... 11 2.2 Fine chemicals ................................................................................................... 12 2.2.1 Biocatalytic synthesis of amino acids ................................................................. 12 2.3 MIO enzymes .................................................................................................... 15 2.3.1 Phenylalanine ammonia lyases (PAL) and Tyrosine ammonia lyases (TAL) ....... 16 2.3.2 Phenylalanine aminomutase (PAM) and Tyrosine aminomutase (TAM) ........... 18 2.3.3 Application of MIO enzymes .............................................................................. 19 2.4 Aim of the work ................................................................................................ 21 3 Material & Methods ................................................................................ 22 3.1 Material ............................................................................................................ 22 3.1.1 Chemicals ........................................................................................................... 22 3.1.2 Cultivation media, antibiotics and inductors ..................................................... 24 3.1.3 Equipment .......................................................................................................... 25 3.1.4 Plasmids .............................................................................................................. 26 3.1.5 Oligonucleotides ................................................................................................. 28 3.1.6 Cloning enzymes ................................................................................................. 28 vi 3.1.7 Bacterial strains .................................................................................................. 28 3.2 Molecular biological methods ........................................................................... 29 3.2.1 Preparation of chemically competent E. coli cells ............................................. 29 3.2.2 Transformation ................................................................................................... 29 3.2.3 Liquid bacterial cultures ..................................................................................... 29 3.2.4 Plasmid preparation ........................................................................................... 29 3.2.5 DNA concentration ............................................................................................. 30 3.2.6 PCR ...................................................................................................................... 30 3.2.7 Agarose gel electrophorese ............................................................................... 31 3.2.8 DNA gel extraction ............................................................................................. 31 3.2.9 DNA digestion ..................................................................................................... 31 3.2.10 PCR product purification .................................................................................... 32 3.2.11 Ligation ............................................................................................................... 32 3.2.12 Sequencing ......................................................................................................... 33 3.3 Enzyme production and purification .................................................................. 33 3.3.1 Gene expression without chaperones ............................................................... 33 3.3.2 Gene expression with chaperones ..................................................................... 33 3.3.3 Preparation of crude cell extract (CCE) .............................................................. 34 3.3.4 Enzyme purification via IMAC ............................................................................ 34 3.3.5 Desalting of purified enzymes ............................................................................ 35 3.3.6 Lyophilization ..................................................................................................... 35 3.4 Analytical methods ........................................................................................... 36 3.4.1 SDS-PAGE ............................................................................................................ 36 3.4.2 Protein concentration assays ............................................................................. 36 3.4.3 Enzyme activity assays ....................................................................................... 38 3.4.4 Chiral HPLC methods .......................................................................................... 41 vii 3.4.5 NMR ...................................................................................................................
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