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Production of alpha-terpineol from Escherichia coli cells expressing thermostable limonene hydratase
N Savithiry1, T K Cheong, P Oriel
1Department of Microbiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA.
Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
The genes encoding a thermostable limonene hydratase have been located on a cloned fragment in Escherichia coli conferring growth on limonene and production of the monoterpenes perillyl alcohol and alpha-terpineol. Whole cell bioconversion studies at elevated temperature employing both an aqueous phase and neat limonene phase demonstrated significant production of alpha-terpineol with additional production of carvone.