Screening process for hydantoin racemases

US7247465B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Degussa AG · DE

Inventors

• Oliver May · Frankfurt, DE
• Karlheinz Drauz · Alzenau, DE
• Stefan Buchholz · Hanau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 15, 2004
• Grant date: Jul 24, 2007
• Expiry date: May 15, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12P41/009
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention relates to a screening process for hydantoin racemases and to novel hydantoin racemases, to the nucleic acid sequences coding therefor and to a proces for mutagenesis.Hydantoin racemases are of interest in connection with the production of enantiomerically enriched amino acids from racemic hydantoins.