The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase polypeptides for the production of amines, polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminases, and methods of using the engineered transaminases to prepare compounds useful in the production of active pharmaceutical agents.

Disclosed are a monooxygenase mutant and use thereof. An amino acid sequence of a monooxygenase mutant is an amino acid sequence obtained by mutating an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. Mutation includes at least one of the following mutation sites: site 49, site 60, site 61, site 144, site 145, site 146, site 147, site 167, site 169, site 189, site 246, site 247, site 280, site 284, site 285, site 286, site 287, site 328, site 330, site 332, site 382, site 427, site 428, site 429, site 430, site 431, site 432, site 433, site 434, site 435, site 436, site 438, site 441, site 493, site 494, site 508, site 509, site 510, site 511, site 512, and site 513 sites and the like. The monooxygenase mutant has the advantage of greatly improved stereoselectivity, and the enzyme activity is also improved correspondingly.

This disclosure relates to the isolation and sequencing of nucleic acid molecules that encode cytochrome P450 polypeptides from a Papaver somniferum cultivar; uses in the production of noscapine and identification of poppy cultivars that include genes that comprise said nucleic acid molecules.

The present invention provides a Streptomyces sp. SNC087 strain (KCCM12505P) that is isolated from seawater and produces staurosporine, a method for producing staurosporine using the same, a method for culturing the same, and a pure culture medium of the same.

The present invention provides triazolone compounds of general formula (I): ##STR00001##
in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are as defined herein, methods of preparing said compounds, intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and the use of said compounds for manufacturing pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of hyperproliferative disorders, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.

The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase polypeptides for the production of amines, polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminases, and methods of using the engineered transaminases to prepare compounds useful in the production of active pharmaceutical agents.

The present disclosure provides engineered polypeptides having imine reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered imine reductases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered imine reductases, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone and amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds.

The present application provides an endophytic bacterial strain with a high camptothecin yield, which is Alternaria temuissima ZCMUKL-S1, deposited as CCTCC NO: M2021189, or Alternaria citricancri ZCMUKL-S2, deposited as CCTCC NO: M2021190, or Aspergillus versicolor ZCMUKL-S3, deposited as CCTCC NO: M2021191. The endophytic bacterial strain has a high yield of camptothecin, wherein the yield of camptothecin per unit dry mycelium powder of Aspergillus versicolor ZCMUKL-S3 is as high as 116 μg/g, which is the highest yield of camptothecin produced by endophytic bacterial strains reported at present, and has potential application value for its industrial production. In addition, the endophytic bacterial strain which can produce high camptothecin provided by the present application has good genetic stability.

The present invention provide scalable methods of producing newly identified atrorosin pigments, compositions comprising the pigments, lakes and dyes and uses thereof for colorings foods, such as dairy, meat substitutes or candy.

A modular and hierarchical DNA assembly platform for synthetic biology is described. This enabling technology, termed MIDAS (for Modular Idempotent DNA Assembly System), can precisely assemble multiple DNA fragments in a single reaction using a standardised assembly design. It can be used to build genes from libraries of sequence-verified, reusable parts and to assemble multiple genes in a single vector. We describe the design and use of MIDAS, and its application in the reconstruction of the metabolic pathway for production of paspaline, a key intermediate in the biosynthesis of a range of indole diterpenes—a class of economically important secondary metabolites produced by several species of filamentous fungi.