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Functionally Diverse Lipase from Soil Metagenome

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Characterization of lipase from soil metagenomic library

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Soil metagenomes are a major source of various enzymes and biomolecules. Lipases are among one of the most investigated class of enzymes in metagenomics. A large number of structurally and functionally diverse lipases from metagenomes have contributed to the discovery of a new lipase families that do not fit into any of the existing eight families.

Introduction

Lipases are the most versatile enzymes found in animals, plants, and microorganisms. They are considered as one of the most important biocatalysts in biotechnological application. Lipases utilize a wide range of substrates; show chemo-, regio- and enantioselectivity; and degrade acyl p-nitrophenyl esters, tweens, and phospholipids. In addition to their natural function of hydrolyzing carboxylic ester bonds, lipases can also catalyze, alcoholysis, acidolysis, esterification, or transesterification reactions under different conditions. These variety of...

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  1. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi, 110 025, India

    Angelina & Mahejibin Khan

  2. Department of Food Microbiology, CSIR- Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, 570020, Karnataka, India

    Angelina & Mahejibin Khan

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    Karen E. Nelson

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Angelina, Khan, M. (2013). Functionally Diverse Lipase from Soil Metagenome. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_219-4

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