a Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan b Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
Abstract:
The enantioselectivity in the sulfoxidation of thioanisole catalyzed by cytochrome P450BSβ with a decoy molecule, a dummy molecule of the natural substrate, can be inverted by changing the structure of the decoy molecule. The methodology demonstrated herein shows the potential for controlling the stereoselectivity of biocatalysts without any mutagenesis.