Lingual lipase is a water soluble enzyme that
primarily catalyses the breakdown of fats and converts them to free fatty
acids, monoglycerides and diglycerides. They play an important role in food
digestion.
Lingual lipase which was discovered in 1976 is a member of a family of digestive enzymes called triacylglycerol lipases, that use the catalytic triad of aspartate, and serine to hydrolyze medium- and long-chain
triglycerides into partial glycerides and free fatty acids.
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