The substrate specificity of phenylalanine dehydrogenase (L-phenylalanine: NAD+ oxidoreductase, deaminating (EC 1.4. 1.-), PheDH) from Bacillus sphaericus SCRC-R79a in the reductive amination reaction was examined with various natural and synthetic 2-and% OXO acids and their analogues. The enzyme was active toward 3-substituted pyruvic acids with bulky substituents. Optically pure (S)-phenylalanine and other (S)-amino acids were ...
[Enright, Alexis; Alexandre, Francois-Rene; Roff, Geoffrey; Fotheringham, Ian G.; Dawson, Michael J.; Turner, Nicholas J. Chemical Communications, 2003 , # 20 p. 2636 - 2637]