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Substrate selectivity of lipases in the esterification of oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid and their all-trans-isomers and in the transesterification of cis/trans-isomers of linoleic acid methyl ester

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The substrate selectivity of several microbial lipases has been examined in the esterification of oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid and their all-trans-isomers and in the alcoholysis of isomeric linoleic acid methyl esters with n-butanol. Lipases from Candida cylindracea and Mucor miehei preferred fatty acids and methyl esters with a (first) cis double bond in Δ9-position, while Chirazyme L-5, a Candida antarctica lipase A, had a preference for trans-9 unsaturated substrates.

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  1. Institute for Biochemistry and Technology of Lipids, H.P. Kaufmann-Institute, Federal Centre for Cereal, Potato and Lipid Research, Piusallee 68, D-48147, Münster, Germany

    Siegfried Warwel & Robert Borgdorf

  2. Institute for Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, Federal Centre for Cereal, Potato and Lipid Research, Piusallee 76, D-48147, Münster, Germany

    Ludger Brühl

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Warwel, S., Borgdorf, R. & Brühl, L. Substrate selectivity of lipases in the esterification of oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid and their all-trans-isomers and in the transesterification of cis/trans-isomers of linoleic acid methyl ester. Biotechnology Letters 21, 431–436 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005589028648

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