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Lipase Improvement: Goals and strategies

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Lipases have received great attention as industrial biocatalysts in areas like oils and fats processing, detergents, baking, cheese making, surface cleaning, or fine chemistry . They can catalyse reactions of insoluble substrates at the lipid-water interface, preserving their catalytic activity in organic solvents. 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. Moreover, lipases catalyse reactions with high specificity, regio and enantioselectivity, becoming the most used enzymes in synthetic organic chemistry. Therefore, they display important advantages over classical catalysts, as they can catalyse reactions with reduced side products, lowered waste treatment costs, and under mild temperature and pressure conditions. Accordingly, the use of lipases holds a great promise for green and economical process chemistry.

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Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology (RNCSB)

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Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2012, vol. 2, num. 3

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cc-by-nc-nd (c) Bassegoda Puigdomènech, Arnau et al., 2012

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Articles publicats en revistes (Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística)

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Lipase Improvement: Goals and strategies