Lipase meaning

lĭp'ās', lī'pās'
Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of fats into glycerol and fatty acids.
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Any of a group of enzymes, esp. from the pancreas, that aid in digestion by hydrolyzing fats into fatty acids and glycerol.
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Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of fats into glycerol and fatty acids.
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Any of various enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of fats, especially triglycerides and phospholipids, into glycerol and fatty acids.
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(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes which catalyses the hydrolysis of lipids.
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Lipase Sentence Examples

  • Lipase breaks down stored fat in the body.

  • That such enzymes are formed in the protoplasm is evident from the behaviour of hyphae, which have been observed to pierce cell-membranes, the chitinous coats of insects, artificial collodion films and layers of wax, &c. That a fungus can secrete more than one enzyme, according to the materials its hyphae have to attack, has been shown by the extraction of diastase, inulase, trehalase, invertase, maltase, raffinase, malizitase, emulsin, trypsin and lipase from Aspergillus by Bourquelot, and similar events occur in other fungi.

  • The digestion of fat or oil has not been adequately investigated, but its decomposition in germinating seeds has been found to be due to an enzyme, which has been called lipase.

  • amylase levels usually parallel levels of another enzyme called lipase.

  • bacillus stearothermophilus Thermophilic species which grows at 65 °C; produces lipase and protease.

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