They found a new hydroxynitrile lyase (HNL) with the highest specific activity toward benzaldehyde and wide temperature and pH stabilities from a millipede. Since the HNL is highly enantioselective in the synthesis of various cyanohydrins, it is expected as the next generation biocatalyst for production of R-specific cyanohydrins.
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JST ERATO
ERATO Asano Active Enzyme Molecule Project
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Mohammad Dadashipour, Yuko Ishida, Kazunori Yamamoto, and Yasuhisa Asano. “Discovery and molecular and biocatalytic properties of hydroxynitrile lyase from an invasive millipede, Chamberlinius hualienensis”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112 no. 34, 2015, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1508311112.
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