Lipase CAS#9001-62-1

Lipases (glycerol ester hydrolases) belong to the carboxyl ester hydrolase class and can gradually hydrolyze triglycerides into glycerol and fatty acids. Lipases are found in fat-containing tissues of animals, plants, and microorganisms (such as molds and bacteria). They include phosphatases, sterolases, and carboxylesterases. Fatty acids are widely used in food, pharmaceuticals, leather, and daily chemicals. Lipases are widely found in animals, plants, and microorganisms.

Lipases are a class of enzymes with diverse catalytic capabilities, catalyzing the hydrolysis, alcoholysis, esterification, transesterification, and reverse synthesis of triglycerides and other water-insoluble esters. They also exhibit other enzymatic activities, such as phospholipases, lysophospholipases, cholesterol esterases, and acylpeptide hydrolases (Hara; Schmid). The different activities of lipases depend on the characteristics of the reaction system, such as promoting ester hydrolysis at the oil-water interface and catalyzing synthesis and transesterification in the organic phase.

Lipases are widely used in industrial production. For example, in the food industry, lipases are used for meat defatting, flour improvement, oil modification, cheese processing, winemaking, and sauce processing. In the feed industry, lipases are combined with other carbohydrate-degrading enzymes to form complex enzymes as feed additives, which can effectively improve feed utilization. Lipases are also widely used in the bioresolvation of chiral compounds in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries. In the papermaking industry, lipases can be used to enzymatically remove rosin from wood pulp. In the biodiesel industry, lipases can be used to catalyze the transesterification reaction of oils and fats with chain-breaking alcohols for the enzymatic synthesis of biodiesel. Lipases are also widely used in the detergent industry, leather processing, and textile industries.