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. 2008 Dec 10;7:37. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-7-37

Table 4.

Effect of varied activity ratio for CtXR and CbFDH during whole cell-catalyzed reduction of 100 mM ethyl 4-cyanobenzoylformate by a suitable mixture of E. coli XR_FDH and E. coli FDH.

substrate conc. [mM] XR : FDH additive1,2 yield [mM]3/ee [%]4
100 1 : 2 polymyxin B 18/86.1 R

100 1 : 6 polymyxin B 36/74.6 R

100 1 : 20 polymyxin B 62/71.3 R

100 1 : 2 NAD+, polymyxin B 23/66.8 R

100 1 : 6 NAD+, polymyxin B 36/64.7 R

100 1 : 20 NAD+, polymyxin B 64/71.2 R

500 1 : 2 polymyxin B 25/≥ 99.9 R

500 1 : 6 polymyxin B 39/84.6 R

500 1 : 20 polymyxin B 88/73.7 R

500 1 : 2 NAD+, polymyxin B 29/≥ 99.9 R

500 1 : 6 NAD+, polymyxin B 42/85.1 R

500 1 : 20 NAD+, polymyxin B 90/75.5 R

The activity of CtXR was kept constant at 1.4 U/mL throughout.

1 [NAD+] = 490 μM, 2 [polymyxin B sulphate] = 144 μM;3Standard errors ≤ 15%. 4Detection limit of ethyl 4-cyanomandelate is below 0.01 mM.