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Lipase Improvement: Goals and Strategies

Year: 2012

Type: review

Abstract: Lipases have received great attention as industrial biocatalysts in areas like oils and fats processing, detergents, baking, cheese making, surface cleaning, or fine chemistry [1,2]. They can catalyse reactions of insoluble substrates at the lipid-water interface, preserving their catalytic activity in organic solvents [3]. This makes of lipases powerful tools for catalysing not only hydrolysis, but also various reverse reactions such as esterification, transesterification, aminolysis, or thiotransesterifications in anhydrous organic solvents [4,5].

Source: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

DOI: 10.5936/csbj.201209005

Authors: Arnau Bassegoda, Silvia Cesarini, Pilar Diaz

Institution: Universitat de Barcelona

Language: English

Topic: Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,230

Funders: Generalitat de Catalunya, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo