Fatty acids alkyl-acylglycerol

The aforementioned are brief examples of successful industrial applications of biocatalysts. In the following section, four detailed case studies of enzymatic processing of lipid-based bioproducts, namely partial acylglycerols, bioactive compounds, phospholipids and fatty acid alkyl esters are presented. 

It is generally considered that PUFA in the acylglycerol form is nutritionally more favorable than the corresponding methyl or ethyl esters as impaired intestinal absorption of aUcyl esters of co3 fatty acids has been observed in laboratory animals (78-81). Although most methods produce PUFA concentrates in the form of free fatty acids or their corresponding alkyl esters, enzyme hydrolysis is a technique proposed to produce co3 fatty acids concentrates in the form of acyglycerols by hydrolyzing the TAG with lipase. Saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids can be easily hydrolyzed because they do not present any barriers to lipases such as the commercial microbial lipases (71). 

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