A review on lipases: sources, estimation and applications

Abstract

Lipases are ubiquitous enzymes that cleave a variety of reactions and exhibit a broad range of industrial applications. Lipases found in microbial sources such as fungi, bacteria and yeast and are important from commercial point of view. Microbial lipases are considered more useful than animal and plant sources because of their stability and reactions they catalyze. This review provides an overview about different sources and industrial applications of lipases. There are several applications of lipases such as in oleo chemical industry, in detergent industry, as biosensors, in food processing industry for flavor development, sewage treatment and in cosmetics. Today lipases have tremendous demand and because of the reactions they catalyze. They are able to induce esterification and transesterification and hydrolysis reactions.