: ESTERASES WITH LIPASE ACTIVITY
Application 1134/KOLNP/2004 published 2006-05-12, filed 2004-08-09
The present invention relates to the use of insect esterases or lipases, or mutants thereof, as catalysts in biotransformation processes. The present invention may have application in any process involving hydrolysis, esterification, transesterification, interesterification or acylation reactions. The invention also has application in the enzymatic resolution of compounds to produce optically active compounds and has particular, but not exclusive, application to substrates having a hydrophobic moiety such as pyrethroids and fatty acid esters. (FIG.nil)
Applicant
COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
Limestone Avenue, Campbell, Australian Capital Territory 2601, AUSTRALIA.
Inventor
OAKESHOTT, John, Graham, DEVONSHIRE, Alan COPPIN, Christopher, Wayne HEIDARI, Rama, DORRIAN, Susan, Jane RUSSELL, Robyn, Joyce
International Info
Classification: C12P 7/62, C12N 9/18
Publication Number: WO 03/066873
Application Date: 2002-02-06