Abstract
As a powerful factory, microbial cells produce a variety of enzymes, such as lipase. Lipase has a wide range of actions and participates in multiple reactions, and they can catalyze the hydrolysis of triacylglycerol into its component free fatty acids and glycerol backbone. Lipase exists widely in nature, most prominently in plants, animals and microorganisms, among which microorganisms are the most important source of lipase. Microbial lipases have been adapted for numerous industrial applications due to their substrate specificity, heterogeneous patterns of expression and versatility (i.e., capacity to catalyze reactions at the extremes of pH and temperature as well as in the presence of metal ions and organic solvents). Now they have been introduced into applications involving the production and processing of food, pharmaceutics, paper making, detergents, biodiesel fuels, and so on. In this mini-review, we will focus on the most up-to-date research on microbial lipases and their commercial and industrial applications. We will also discuss and predict future applications of these important technologies.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Microbiotechnology, a section of the journal Frontiers in MicrobiologyReceived: 18 July 2021 Accepted: 26 August 2021 Published: 20 September 2021Citation: Yao W, Liu K, Liu H, Jiang Y, Wang R, Wang W and Wang T (2021) A Valuable Product of Microbial Cell Factories: Microbial Lipase
Lipases are the third most commonly used enzyme class after proteases and amylases (Ulker et al, 2011). It could catalyze the hydrolysis of various forms of long-chain triacylglycerides to form free fatty acids and glycerol, and the synthesis of fatty acid glycerides based on fatty acids and glycerol, which is a class of carboxylic ester hydrolases (EC 3.1.1.X) (Geoffry and Achur, 2017)
Our analysis of the existing literature revealed that microbial lipases are among the most versatile and productive lipases in current use
Summary
Wentao Yao1,2†, Kaiquan Liu1,2*†, Hongling Liu, Yi Jiang, Ruiming Wang, Wei Wang and Tengfei Wang1,2*. Microbial lipases have been adapted for numerous industrial applications due to their substrate specificity, heterogeneous patterns of expression and versatility (i.e., capacity to catalyze reactions at the extremes of pH and temperature as well as in the presence of metal ions and organic solvents). They have been introduced into applications involving the production and processing of food, pharmaceutics, paper making, detergents, biodiesel fuels, and so on.
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