Summary
The production of l-phenylalanine from the racemate d,l-phenyllactate in an enzyme membrane reactor has been examined. In a first step the racemate is dehydrogenated to the prochiral intermediate phenylpyruvate by the enzymes d-and l-hydroxyisocaproate dehydrogenase. In a second step phenylpyruvate is reductively aminated to l-phenylalanine by l-phenylalanine dehydrogenase. Both steps are dependent on coenzyme, the first one requires NAD, the second one NADH in stoichiometric amounts; in this way the coenzyme is regenerated and only required catalytically. The coenzyme is covalently bound to polyethylene glyco-20 000 and can thus be retained in the reactor analogously to the three enzymes. In order to optimize the continuous production of l-phenylalanine from d,l-phenyllactate, models of the reaction kinetics and of the reactor system have been set up. By means of the reactor model, we can calculate the optimum ratio of the three enzymes, the optimum coenzyme concentration and the optimum phenylpyruvate concentration in the feed.
In this process, at a substrate concentration of 50 mM d,l-phenyllactate we reached a spacetime-yield of 28 g l-Phe/(l*d).
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Abbreviations
- PEG:
-
polyethylene glycol
- d-HicDH:
-
d-hydroxyisocaproate dehydrogenase
- l-HicDH:
-
l-hydroxyisocaproate dehydrogenase
- PheDH:
-
l-phenylalanine dehydrogenase
- V max :
-
maximum velocity
- K M :
-
Michaelis-Menten constant
- K l :
-
inhibition constant
- R1 :
-
reaction rate of the d-HicDH forward reaction
- R2 :
-
reaction rate of the d-HicDH reverse reaction
- R3 :
-
reaction rate of the l-HicDH forward reaction
- R4 :
-
reaction rate of the l-HicDH reverse reaction
- R5 :
-
reaction rate of the PheDH forward reaction
- R6 :
-
reaction rate of the PheDH reverse reaction
- d-PLac:
-
d-phenyllactate
- l-PLac:
-
l-phenyllactate
- PPy:
-
phenylpyruvate
- l-Phe:
-
l-phenylalanine
- NH4 :
-
ammonium
- τ:
-
residence time
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Schmidt, E., Vasić-Rački, Đ. & Wandrey, C. Enzymatic production of l-phenylalanine from the racemic mixture of d,l-phenyllactate. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 26, 42–48 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282147
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