Lipases or esterases: Does it really matter? toward a new bio-physico-chemical classification

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 861, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-51

  Ali, Yassine Ben ^a   Verger, Robert ^b   Abousalham, Abdelkarim ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Carboxylester hydrolase; Cholesterol ester; Esterase; Hydrolase; Lipase; Lipid; Lipolytic

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESTER; ESTERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ESTERASES; ESTERS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; LIPASE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84860001897     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-600-5_2     Document Type: Article

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