• Proceedings of the Microbiological Society of Korea Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.92-93
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• 2007

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.1218-1220
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• 1999

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.173-175
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• 1985

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.457-460
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• 2002

In an effort to isolate novel strains expressing a thermostable esterase that hydrolyzed the rac-ketoprofen ethyl ester to ketoprofen in the stereospecific manner, we screened various soils and composts from broad ecological niches in which the activity was expected to be found. Three hundreds of microbial strains were tested to determine their ester-hydrolyzing activity by using an agar plate containing insoluble tributyrin as an indicative substrate, and then further screened by activity on the (R,S)-ketoprofen ethyl ester. Twenty-six strains were screened primarily at high growth and incubation temperature and further compared the ability to ethyl ester-hydrolyzing activity in terms of conversion yield and chiral specificity. Consequently, a strain JYl44 was isolated as a novel strain that produced a (R)-stereospecific esterase with high stability and systematically identified as a Bacillus stearothermophilus JY144. The enzyme indeed stables at a broad range of temperature, upto 65 $^{\circ}C$, and pH ranging from 6.0 to 10.0. The optimal temperature and pH for enzymatic conversion were 50 $^{\circ}C$ and 9.0, respectively. Based on the observations that resulted a poor cell growth, and enzyme expression in wild type strain, we further attempted the gene cloning into a general host Escherichia coli and determined its primary structure, concomitantly resulting a high level expression of the enzyme. The cloned gene had an open reading frame (250 amino acids) with a calculated molecular mass of 27.4 kDa, and its primary structure showed a relative high homology (45-52 %) to the esterases from Streptomyces and Bacillus strains. The recombinant whole cell enzyme could efficiently convert the rac-ketoprofen ethyl ester to (R)-ketoprofen, with optical purity of 99 % and yield of 49 %.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.227-238
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• 1995

Recent reports on biotransformation of monoterpene alchols, aldehydes, acetates and epoxides are summerized. The studies have focused on stereospecific reaction of the functional groups of exogenous foreign substrates by foreign plant cells and micro-organisms. An another important aspect of research is the development of the immobilization technique for cells or related enzymes.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.256-260
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• 1982

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.985-988
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• 1995

2-Epideoxymannojirimycin 1 and (2R,3R,4R,5R)-3,4,5-trihydroxypipecolic acid 2 were prepared starting from D-glucosamic acid as a chiral educt. Key transformations were selective removal of the terminal isopropylidene group and intramolecular cyclization by SN2 reaction.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.352-355
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• 1986

Methyl-6-deoxy-$\beta$-L-idopyranoside was prepared in good yield by treatment of methyl 2,3,4-tri-O-benzyl-6-deoxy-$\alpha$-D-xylo-hex-5-enopyranoside with H$_2$ on pd, followed by reaction of Na/NH$_3$ at $-50^{\circ}C$. The ratio of L-idopyranoside and D-glucopyranoside was 7 to 1 in 80.7%. It was confirmed that L-idopyranoside was 1C conformation as being expected.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.559-563
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• 1994

Glycosylation of benzoylated glycosyl halides of glucose, galactose and mannose with potassium p-nitrophenoxide and 18-crown-6 complex in chloroform resulted in the stereospecific formation of 1,2-trans p-nitrophenyl glycopyranosides in good yields. The same reaction with benzylated mannopyranosyl chloride gave the ${\alpha}-and\;{\beta}-p-nitrophenyl$ mannopyranosides in 3 : 1 ratio. However, acetylated 2-azido-altropyranosyl chloride gave ${\beta}-p-nitrophenyl$ altropyranoside only.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.197-202
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• 1987

Sigmatropic rearrangement of cis and trans-2-methyl-N-phenyl-1,3-oxathiolane-2-acetamide (b) and (c) gave unisolable sulfenic acids (d) and (f), respectively. These sulfenic acids were confirmed by deuterium exchange reactions involving 2-methylene and 2-methyl groups. The reactions also showed that no isomerization between the cis and trans sulfoxides (b) and (c) occurred under neutral conditions. However, the isomerization took place in the presence of acid catalyst. Stereospecific recyclization of sulfenic acids to the sulfoxides is attributable to possible hydrogen bonding between sulfenyl oxygen and NH proton or it arises from the geometrical requirements of the reacting bond and atoms in the reverse sigmatropic rearrangement. In the oxidation of 1, 3-oxathiolane, cis sulfoxide (b) could be obtained selectively in high yield by using $H_2O_2$-benzene seleninic acid.