Process for regenerating coenzymes

US4766071A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Simon · Göppingen, DE
• Alexander Deffner · Garching bei München, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 14, 1986
• Grant date: Aug 23, 1988
• Expiry date: Feb 14, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S435/842
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a process for the enzymatic preparation or regeneration of coenzymes selected from the group consisting of ATP, acetyl-CoA, acetyl-phosphate, NAD, NADP, NADH, and NADPH from their known oxidized and reduced forms, in which alkanals, such as acetaldehyde, are used as an oxidizing agent or alkanals such as acetaldehyde and alcohols, such as ethanol, are used as a reducing agent and a cell lysate of Clostridium kluyveri is used as a biocatalyst.