用新分离的巨大芽孢杆菌对映选择性水解缩水甘油苯基醚

Microbial epoxide hydrolases from bacterial and fungal sources?1? are hi ghly versatile catalysts for the asymmetric hydrolysis of chiral epoxides which are extensively employed as useful building blocks for the synthesis of various biologically active products in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Microorganism means allows an unlimited supply of these enzymes for preparative -scale applications. Phenyl glycidyl ether (PGE), an aryl epoxide, is a potenti ally useful compound in the synthesis of chiral amino alcohols and bioactive com pounds such as ?blockers. No suitable biocatalyst with sufficiently high enan tioselectivity (E?20) for the kinetic resolution of this compound was previ ously found among bacteria and fungi. This prompted us to screen epoxide hydrola se-producing microorganisms with higher enantioselectivity toward phenyl glycid yl ether from soil samples.     

分光光度法测定环氧化物浓度与环氧化物水解酶活性

研究了在弱碱性条件下 ,利用环氧化物与 4- (对硝基 )苄基吡啶之间的显色反应测定环氧化物含量 ,进而计算环氧化物水解酶活性的分光光度法。对于缩水甘油苯基醚 ,其最低检出浓度为 4.5 μmol/L,所生成染料的摩尔吸光系数 ε为 2 .2 0× 1 0 3L· mol- 1· cm- 1。在 4.5～ 30 0 μmol/L的浓度范围内 ,测量的精密度可达 0 .9%。