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31/08/2010 at 10:06 am #14187
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Mechanism:-
Lingual lipase uses a catalytic triad consisting of Aspartatic Acid-203 (Asp), Histidine-257 (His), and Serine-144 (Ser), to initiate the hydrolysis of a triglyceride into a diacyglyceride and a free fatty acid.