“…Cephalosporin-C possesses weak antimicrobial activity, but substitutions on C 3 and C 7 positions of its β-lactam ring along with other structures generate semisynthetic cephalosporins with diversified antimicrobial activity, e.g., cefazolin, cefotoxime, cephamandole, cephaclor, and so on. The chemical methods of 7-ACA production are tedious, time consuming and involve multiple costly steps (4,5), and hence, attempts have been made to produce 7-ACA by a biocatalytic process. Cephalosporin acylases are classified in to two groups depending on their substrate specificity: glutaryl 7-ACA acylases (GL-7-ACA acylases), also known as 7-β-(4-carboxybutanamido) cephalosporanic acid acylases (1)(2)(3)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11), which are involved in the threestep conversion of CPC to 7-ACA, and cephalosporin-C acylase (CPC acylase), which have been reported in a single-step conversion (1,2).…”