Preparation of D-alpha-amino acids, using bacteria transformed with the carbamoylase-hydantoinase operon

摘要

In an improved process for the preparation of D- alpha -amino acids by the stereoselective conversion of racemic mixtures of 5-substituted hydantoins with an enzymatic system produced by a microorganism, the improvement consists in the fact that a microorganism is used transformed with the plasmid pSM700 cultivated at a temperature of between 20 DEG C and 28 DEG C. The use of this microorganism allows an improvement in the expression of the enzymatic system and an increase in the conversion rate of the racemic hydantoin to D- alpha -amino acid.