Anti-kazlauskas lipases

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United States Patent Application 20050153404
Kind Code A1
Bosch, Boris ; et al. July 14, 2005
Anti-kazlauskas lipases
Abstract
The present invention relates to polypeptides which exert the biological activity of lipases and which have an anti-Kazlauskas-rule selectivity, to host cells containing nucleic acids coding for these polypeptides, to the nucleic acids themselves, and to the vectors required for preparing the host cells of the invention. In a further aspect, the invention relates to a method for preparing enantiomer-enriched esters and alcohols, which is advantageously carried out in the presence of a racemization catalyst.
Inventors: Bosch, Boris; (Koln, DE) ; Meissner, Ruth; (Leverkusen, DE) ; Berendes, Frank; (Munster, DE) ; Koch, Rainhard; (Koln, DE)
Correspondence Name and Address: LANXESS CORPORATION
111 RIDC PARK WEST DRIVE
PITTSBURGH
PA
15275-1112
US
Serial No.: 686490
Series Code: 10
Filed: October 15, 2003
U.S. Current Class: 435/116; 435/135; 435/198; 435/320.1; 435/325; 435/6; 435/69.1; 536/23.2
U.S. Class at Publication: 435/116; 435/198; 435/069.1; 435/320.1; 435/325; 536/023.2; 435/006; 435/135
Intern'l Class: C12P 013/06; C12P 021/06; C12P 007/62; C12Q 001/68; C07H 021/04; C12N 009/20