Zajkoska, P; Cardenas-Fernandez, M; Lye, GJ; Rosenberg, M; Turner, NJ; Rebros, M; (2017) Chemo-biocatalytic one-pot two-step conversion of cyclic amine to lactam using whole cell monoamine oxidase. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology , 92 (7) pp. 1558-1565. 10.1002/jctb.5146.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Most biocatalysts currently involved in one‐pot chemoenzymatic cascades are pure enzymes, while whole cells and crude enzyme extracts remain unexplored. This work aims to develop a chemo‐biocatalytic one‐pot two‐step system involving whole cell monoamine oxidase (MAO, EC 1.4.3.4) coupled with a Cu‐based oxidative system (CuI/H2O2) for the transformation of 1,2,3,4‐tetrahydroisoquinoline (THIQ) to 3,4‐dihydroisoquinolin‐1(2H)‐one (DHIO). RESULTS: MAO‐N variants D9 and D11 were tested as whole cell and crude lysate biocatalysts for biological oxidation. Whole Escherichia coli OverExpress C43(DE3) cells expressing MAO‐N D9 showed the best performance (Vmax = 36.58 mmol L−1 h−1, KM = 8.124 mmol L−1, maximum specific productivity 89.3 μmol min−1 g−1DCW) and were employed in combination with CuI/H2O2 in a sequential one‐pot two‐step process. The biotransformation was scaled‐up to the initial volume of 25 mL and after triple THIQ feeding, 48.2 mmol L−1 of the intermediate 3,4‐dihydroisoquinoline (DHIQ) was obtained with a yield of 71.3%. Afterwards, chemical catalysts (1 mol% CuI and 10 eq. H2O2) were added to the biologically produced DHIQ, which was transformed to ∼30 mmol L−1 DHIO at 69.4% overall yield. CONCLUSION: As MAO‐N variants have wide substrate specificity, this work broadens the portfolio of one‐pot chemoenzymatic processes employing whole cell biocatalysts, representing an alternative to using pure enzymes.

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