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Synthesis of 3-furylmethylpenicillin using an enzymatic procedure
O Ferrero1, A Reglero, J Martín-Villacorta
1Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de León, Spain.
FEMS Microbiology Letters
|September 15, 1991
Abstract:
3-Furylmethylpenicillin was synthesized in vitro from 3-furylacetic acid, 6-aminopenicillanic acid (6-APA), CoA, ATP and Mg2+. The reaction was catalyzed in two steps by the enzymes phenyl-acetyl-CoA ligase (PCL) from Pseudomonas putida and acyl-CoA: 6-APA acyltransferase (AT) from Penicillium chrysogenum. PCL catalyzes the activation of 3-furylacetic acid to 3-furylacetyl-CoA (3-F-CoA) and AT acylates the amino group of 6-APA with the 3-furylacetyl moiety of 3-F-CoA, releasing CoA and 3-furylmethylpenicillin.