Esterase

Esterase

An enzyme that hydrolyses esters; unless otherwise indicated, esters of carboxylic acids. The category includes the lipases, which, most generally defined, hydrolyze lipids; however, many lipases are active only when the lipid is in micellar form; thus they are characteristically inactive against low concentrations of a lipid, and show activity (surface activation) only when the lipid concentration rises above the critical micellar concentration.

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