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Our previous work explored a panel of engineered amine dehydrogenases (AmDHs) derived from amino acid dehydrogenase (AADH), enabling the one-step synthesis of chiral amino alcohols via the asymmetric reductive amination of \u03b1-hydroxy ketones. Although the AmDH-directed asymmetric reduction is in a high stereoselective manner, the activity is yet fully excavated. Herein, an engineered AmDH derived from a leucine dehydrogenase from\n                    <jats:italic>Sporosarcina psychrophila<\/jats:italic>\n                    (\n                    <jats:italic>Sp<\/jats:italic>\n                    AmDH) was recruited as the starting enzyme, and the combinatorial active-site saturation test\/iterative saturation mutagenesis (CAST\/ISM) strategy was applied to improve the activity. After three rounds of mutagenesis in an iterative fashion, the best variant wh84 was obtained and proved to be effective in the asymmetric reductive amination of 1-hydroxy-2-butanone with 4-fold improvements in\n                    <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>cat<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    \/\n                    <jats:italic>K<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>m<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    and total turnover number (TTN) values compared to those of the starting enzyme, while maintaining high enantioselectivity (\n                    <jats:italic>ee<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;gt;99%) and thermostability (\n                    <jats:italic>T<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>50<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    <jats:sup>\n                      <jats:italic>15<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sup>\n                    &amp;gt;53\u00b0C). In preparative-scale reaction, the conversion of 100 and 200\u00a0mM 1-hydroxy-2-butanone catalyzed by wh84 was up to 91\u201399%. Insights into the source of an enhanced activity were gained by the computational analysis. Our work expands the catalytic repertoire and toolbox of AmDHs.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fbioe.2021.778584","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,5]],"date-time":"2022-01-05T01:03:50Z","timestamp":1641344630000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Biosynthesis of Chiral Amino Alcohols via an Engineered Amine Dehydrogenase in E. coli"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Feifei","family":"Tong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zongmin","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongyue","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yingying","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junkuan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Ming","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ge","family":"Qu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yazhong","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhoutong","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"3969","DOI":"10.1002\/anie.201107813","article-title":"Development of an Amine Dehydrogenase for Synthesis of Chiral Amines","volume":"51","author":"Abrahamson","year":"2012","journal-title":"Angew. 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