Cephalosporin C (cephalosporin + c)

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Selected Abstracts


One-Pot Conversion of Cephalosporin C to 7-Aminocephalosporanic Acid in the Absence of Hydrogen Peroxide

ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS (PREVIOUSLY: JOURNAL FUER PRAKTISCHE CHEMIE), Issue 14 2005
Fernando Lopez-Gallego
Abstract The main drawback in the production of 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA) at the industrial level is the inactivation of the enzymes implicated in the process due to the presence of hydrogen peroxide during the reaction. As an alternative, we have developed the conversion of cephalosporin C to 7-ACA in a single reactor without the presence of hydrogen peroxide during the reaction, achieving more than 80% yield. In order to develop this process, D -amino acid oxidase (DAAO) was co-immobilized with catalase (CAT), which is able to fully eliminate in situ the hydrogen peroxide formed by the neighbouring DAAO molecules. Thus, the product of the reaction is only ,-ketoadipyl-7-ACA. This system prevents the inactivation of the oxidase by hydrogen peroxide, solving the main problem of the enzymatic process. Moreover, we have found that ,-ketoadipyl-7-ACA is recognized as a substrate by glutaryl acylase (GAC) and hydrolyzed as long as glutaric acid is absent from the reaction medium (because it is able to inhibit the hydrolysis). The low stability of ,-ketoadipyl-7-ACA justifies the use of a single reactor, in which glutaryl acylase is already present when this substrate is generated. Thus, the whole process may (and must) be performed in a single step, and in the absence of hydrogen peroxide that could affect the stabilities of the involved enzymes. [source]


Process Development in Biotechnology , A Re-Evaluation

ENGINEERING IN LIFE SCIENCES (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2005
K. Schügerl
Abstract This review considers some process development problems in biotechnology and presents examples of solutions, which were developed in cooperation with industrial partners. These processes include the production of restriction endonuclease EcoRI by recombinant Escherichia coli, which is toxic to the cell, penicillin V by Penicillium chrysogenum, xylanase by Aspergillus awamori, cephalosporin C by Acremonium chrysogenum, erythritol by Moniliella tomentosa var pollinis, and alkaline serine protease by Bacillus licheniformis. Special attention is given to the practical aspects of product development. [source]


One-Pot Conversion of Cephalosporin C to 7-Aminocephalosporanic Acid in the Absence of Hydrogen Peroxide

ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS (PREVIOUSLY: JOURNAL FUER PRAKTISCHE CHEMIE), Issue 14 2005
Fernando Lopez-Gallego
Abstract The main drawback in the production of 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA) at the industrial level is the inactivation of the enzymes implicated in the process due to the presence of hydrogen peroxide during the reaction. As an alternative, we have developed the conversion of cephalosporin C to 7-ACA in a single reactor without the presence of hydrogen peroxide during the reaction, achieving more than 80% yield. In order to develop this process, D -amino acid oxidase (DAAO) was co-immobilized with catalase (CAT), which is able to fully eliminate in situ the hydrogen peroxide formed by the neighbouring DAAO molecules. Thus, the product of the reaction is only ,-ketoadipyl-7-ACA. This system prevents the inactivation of the oxidase by hydrogen peroxide, solving the main problem of the enzymatic process. Moreover, we have found that ,-ketoadipyl-7-ACA is recognized as a substrate by glutaryl acylase (GAC) and hydrolyzed as long as glutaric acid is absent from the reaction medium (because it is able to inhibit the hydrolysis). The low stability of ,-ketoadipyl-7-ACA justifies the use of a single reactor, in which glutaryl acylase is already present when this substrate is generated. Thus, the whole process may (and must) be performed in a single step, and in the absence of hydrogen peroxide that could affect the stabilities of the involved enzymes. [source]


Influence of Substrate Structure on PGA-Catalyzed Acylations.

ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS (PREVIOUSLY: JOURNAL FUER PRAKTISCHE CHEMIE), Issue 1 2005
Evaluation of Different Approaches for the Enzymatic Synthesis of Cefonicid
Abstract The influence of the substrate structure on the catalytic properties of penicillin G acylase (PGA) from Escherichia coli in kinetically controlled acylations has been studied. In particular, the affinity of different ,-lactam nuclei towards the active site has been evaluated considering the ratio between the rate of synthesis (vs) and the rate of hydrolysis of the acylating ester (vh1). 7-Aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA) and 7-amino-3-(1-sulfomethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrazol-5-yl)thiomethyl-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid (7-SACA) showed a good affinity for the active centre of PGA. The enzymatic acylation of these nuclei with R -methyl mandelate has been studied in order to evaluate different approaches for the enzymatic synthesis of cefonicid. The best results have been obtained in the acylation of 7-SACA. Cefonicid (8) was recovered from the reaction mixture as the disodium salt in 65% yield and about 95% of purity. Furthermore, through acylation of 7-ACA, a "one-pot" chemo-enzymatic synthesis was carried out starting from cephalosporin C using three enzymes in sequence: D -amino acid oxidase (DAO), glutaryl acylase (GA) and PGA. Cefonicid disodium salt was obtained in three steps, avoiding any intermediate purification, in 35% overall yield and about 94% purity. This approach presents several advantages compared with the classical chemical processes. [source]


Adsorption equilibrium of amino acids and antibiotics on non-ionic polymeric sorbents

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY, Issue 4 2004
Jae Wook Lee
Abstract Adsorption equilibria of two amino acids (phenylalanine and tryptophan) and two antibiotics (penicillin G and cephalosporin C) from aqueous solutions onto non-ionic polymeric sorbents (XAD-4 and XAD-16) were investigated under various experimental conditions such as pH, temperature and organic solvents. The assumption that amino acids adsorbed on polymeric sorbents were desorbed by competitive adsorption with organic solvent as a desorbate was verified using binary adsorption data for amino acids (phenylalanine and tryptophan) and organic solvents (isopropyl alcohol and methanol) on XAD-4 and XAD-16. The experimental data were predicted by using multicomponent adsorption models of an Extended-Langmuir (EL) equation and an ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) based on the Langmuir equation as a single-component isotherm. Copyright © 2004 Society of Chemical Industry [source]


Structure-based prediction of modifications in glutarylamidase to allow single-step enzymatic production of 7-aminocephalosporanic acid from cephalosporin C

PROTEIN SCIENCE, Issue 1 2002
Karin Fritz-Wolf
Abstract Glutarylamidase is an important enzyme employed in the commercial production of 7-aminocephalosporanic acid, a starting compound in the synthesis of cephalosporin antibiotics. 7-aminocephalosporanic acid is obtained from cephalosporin C, a natural antibiotic, either chemically or by a two-step enzymatic process utilizing the enzymes D-amino acid oxidase and glutarylamidase. We have investigated possibilities for redesigning glutarylamidase for the production of 7-aminocephalosporanic acid from cephalosporin C in a single enzymatic step. These studies are based on the structures of glutarylamidase, which we have solved with bound phosphate and ethylene glycol to 2.5 Å resolution and with bound glycerol to 2.4 Å. The phosphate binds near the catalytic serine in a way that mimics the hemiacetal that develops during catalysis, while the glycerol occupies the side-chain binding pocket. Our structures show that the enzyme is not only structurally similar to penicillin G acylase but also employs essentially the same mechanism in which the ,-amino group of the catalytic serine acts as a base. A subtle difference is the presence of two catalytic dyads, His B23/Glu B455 and His B23/Ser B1, that are not seen in penicillin G acylase. In contrast to classical serine proteases, the central histidine of these dyads interacts indirectly with the O, through a hydrogen bond relay network involving the ,-amino group of the serine and a bound water molecule. A plausible model of the enzyme,substrate complex is proposed that leads to the prediction of mutants of glutarylamidase that should enable the enzyme to deacylate cephalosporin C into 7-aminocephalosporanic acid. [source]


Enhancement of glutaryl-7-aminocephalosporanic acid acylase activity of ,-glutamyltranspeptidase of Bacillus subtilis

BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL, Issue 8 2010
Hideyuki Suzuki Professor
Abstract Semisynthetic cephalosporins, the best-selling antibiotics worldwide, are derived from 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA). Currently, in the pharmaceutical industrie, 7-ACA is mainly produced from cephalosporin C by sequential application of D -amino acid oxidase and cephalosporin acylase. Here we study the potential of industrially amenable enzyme ,-glutamyltranspeptidase from Bacillus subtilis for 7-ACA production, since the wild-type ,-glutamyltranspeptidase of B. subtilis has inherent glutaryl-7-aminocephalosporanic acid acylase activity with a kcat value of 0.0485 s -1. Its activity has been enhanced by site directed and random mutagenesis. The kcat/Km value was increased to 3.41 s -1 mM -1 for a E423Y/E442Q/D445N mutant enzyme and the kcat value was increased to 0.508 s -1 for a D445G mutant enzyme. Consequently, the catalytic efficiency and the turnover rate were improved up to about 1000-fold and 10-fold, compared with the wildtype ,-glutamyltranspeptidase of B. subtilis. [source]