%A Gautam Srivastava %A Mohan Pal %A Suneet Kaur %A R S Jolly %O Copyright of this article belongs to RSC. %J Catalysis Science & Technology %T A highly efficient designer cell for enantioselective reduction of ketones %X A designer cell, surf-crs-gdh, coexpressing carbonyl reductase (crs) and glucose dehydrogenase (gdh) on the cell surface has been constructed and its enzyme activities are compared with those of the corresponding cell, cyto-crs-gdh, coexpressing crs and gdh in cytosol. For various ketones, surf-crs-gdh exhibited 48- to 265-fold higher crs activity per unit protein compared to cyto-crs-gdh. %N 1 %K Ketones %P 105-108 %V 5 %D 2015 %I Royal Society of Chemistry %R doi:10.1039/C4CY01017E %L open1781