New biochemical methods for production of Nα-benzyloxycarbonyl-d,l-aminoadipic-δ-semialdehyde and Nα-benzyloxycarbonyl-d,l-aminoadipic acid

New biochemical methods for the production of Nα-benzyloxycarbonyl-l-aminoadipate δ-semialdehyde (Nα-Z-l-AASA), Nα-Z-d-AASA, Nα-Z-l-aminoadipic acid (Nα-Z-l-AAA), Nα-Z-d-AAA were developed using cells of Rhodococcus sp. AIU Z-35-1. When the cells harvested after 1 day of cultivation were incubated with 100 mM Nα-Z-l-lysine at pH 5.0 for 1 day at 30 °C or at pH 7.0 for 2 days at 10 °C, more than 95 mM Nα-Z-l-AASA was produced. Using the cells harvested after 3 days of cultivation, Nα-Z-l-AAA was efficiently produced by incubating at pH 7.0 for 4 days at 30 °C. Similar conversion yields of Nα-Z-d-AASA and Nα-Z-d-AAA were also obtained under the same conditions. Thus, the microbial methods proposed here were superior to the chemical and other biochemical methods in simplicity, reaction rate, and yield.