Activity and selectivity of some hydrolases in enantiomeric solvents

✍ Scribed by Gianluca Ottolina; Roberto Bovara; Sergio Riva; Giacomo Carrea

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 375 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0141-5492
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00128626

✦ Synopsis

The activity and the regio-and enantioselectivity of five lipases and one protease were investigated in the two enanfiomeric solvents (R)-carvone and (S)-carvone. It was found that in all cases enzyme activity changed as a function of solvent configuration and that, for the same enzyme, it was higher in (R)-carvone or in (S)-carvone depending on the nature of the substrate. Instead, no significative variation of regio-and enantioselectivity was observed moving from one enantiomeric solvent to the other.