TY - JOUR
T1 - Engineering a multipurpose catalyst
AU - Kazlauskas, Romas J.
PY - 2006/10
Y1 - 2006/10
N2 - D-Amino acids can be useful building blocks for pharmaceuticals, but synthesizing them at a low cost remains challenging. A good catalyst for generating unnatural D-amino acids has been created by expanding the substrate range of a highly specific dehydrogenase.
AB - D-Amino acids can be useful building blocks for pharmaceuticals, but synthesizing them at a low cost remains challenging. A good catalyst for generating unnatural D-amino acids has been created by expanding the substrate range of a highly specific dehydrogenase.
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U2 - 10.1038/nchembio1006-514
DO - 10.1038/nchembio1006-514
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 16983384
AN - SCOPUS:33748780368
SN - 1552-4450
VL - 2
SP - 514
EP - 515
JO - Nature Chemical Biology
JF - Nature Chemical Biology
IS - 10
ER -