The aldo-keto reductase superfamily and its role in drug metabolism and detoxification

OA Barski, SM Tipparaju, A Bhatnagar - Drug metabolism reviews, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The aldo-keto reductase (AKR) superfamily comprises enzymes that catalyze redox
transformations involved in biosynthesis, intermediary metabolism, and detoxification …

Microbial cells as catalysts for stereoselective red–ox reactions

JD Carballeira, MA Quezada, P Hoyos, Y Simeó… - Biotechnology …, 2009 - Elsevier
Enzyme catalyzed reactions are commonly used at laboratory or industrial scale. Contrarily,
the whole cell catalyzed reactions are restricted to special cases. The tremendous advances …

[HTML][HTML] Yeast biotechnology: teaching the old dog new tricks

D Mattanovich, M Sauer, B Gasser - Microbial cell factories, 2014 - Springer
Yeasts are regarded as the first microorganisms used by humans to process food and
alcoholic beverages. The technology developed out of these ancient processes has been …

[HTML][HTML] Yeast cell factories for fine chemical and API production

B Pscheidt, A Glieder - Microbial Cell Factories, 2008 - Springer
This review gives an overview of different yeast strains and enzyme classes involved in
yeast whole-cell biotransformations. A focus was put on the synthesis of compounds for fine …

New trends in the recycling of NAD (P) H for the design of sustainable asymmetric reductions catalyzed by dehydrogenases

A Berenguer-Murcia… - Current Organic …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Dehydrogenases are amongst the most promising enzymes in biocatalysis, due to their
ability to perform asymmetric and regioselective reductions of both ketones and double …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-cell bioreduction of aromatic α-keto esters using Candida tenuis xylose reductase and Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase co-expressed in …

R Kratzer, M Pukl, S Egger, B Nidetzky - Microbial Cell Factories, 2008 - Springer
Background Whole cell-catalyzed biotransformation is a clear process option for the
production of chiral alcohols via enantioselective reduction of precursor ketones. A wide …

The CCAAT box binding transcription factor, nuclear factor-Y (NF-Y) regulates transcription of human aldo-keto reductase 1C1 (AKR1C1) gene

R Pallai, H Simpkins, J Chen, HK Parekh - Gene, 2010 - Elsevier
Dihydrodiol dehydrogenases are a family of aldo-keto reductases (AKR1Cs) involved in the
metabolism of steroid hormones and xenobiotics. Herein, we have cloned and characterized …

Integration of newly isolated biocatalyst and resin-based in situ product removal technique for the asymmetric synthesis of (R)-methyl mandelate

JL Guo, XQ Mu, Y Xu - Bioprocess and biosystems engineering, 2010 - Springer
The enantioselective reduction of methyl benzoylformate to (R)-methyl mandelate, an
important pharmaceutical intermediate and a versatile resolving agent, was investigated in …

Candida tenuis xylose reductase catalysed reduction of acetophenones: the effect of ring-substituents on catalytic efficiency

M Vogl, R Kratzer, B Nidetzky, L Brecker - Organic & biomolecular …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The catalytic efficiencies of Candida tenuisxylose reductase catalysed reductions of mono-
substituted acetophenones are in reasonable correlation with the σ-Hammett coefficients of …

Systematic strain construction and process development: Xylitol production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing Candida tenuis xylose reductase in wild-type or …

SM Pratter, T Eixelsberger, B Nidetzky - Bioresource technology, 2015 - Elsevier
A novel Saccharomyces cerevisiae whole-cell biocatalyst for xylitol production based on
Candida tenuis xylose reductase (CtXR) is presented. Six recombinant strains expressing …