| URL: | http://www.lipabase-pfba-tun.org |
| Full name: | a database for 'true' lipase family enzymes |
| Description: | LIPABASE is a centralised resource database, which provides information about 'true' lipase from different species. It includes general, taxonomic, physicochemical and molecular data. |
| Year founded: | 2011 |
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| Country/Region: | Tunisia |
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| University/Institution: | Universite Tunis El Manar |
| Address: | Institut Superieur des Sciences Biologiques Appliquees de Tunis, Universite Tunis El Manar, Tunisie |
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| Country/Region: | Tunisia |
| Contact name (PI/Team): | Messaoudi A |
| Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | amessaoudi@tvtc.gov.sa |
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LIPABASE: a database for 'true' lipase family enzymes. [PMID: 22112530]
Lipase enzymes play an important role in lipid metabolism and are produced by a variety of species. Compared with animal, bacterial and fungal, little is known about plant lipases. Although lipases belong to many different protein families, they have the same architecture, the ?/?-hydrolase fold and a conserved active site signature, the Gly-Xaa-Ser-Xaa-Gly motif. Several studies on enzymatic activity and interfacial activation phenomenon of lipases confirm the presence of consensus sequence and a conserved domain. Lipases can be divided into two main groups: carboxylesterases (EC 3.1.1.1); 'true' lipases (EC 3.1.1.3), which differ in several biochemical features, which allow us to develop a database that regroups all 'true' lipase proprieties to establish relationship between structure and function. LIPABASE is a centralised resource database, which provides information about 'true' lipase from different species. It includes general, taxonomic, physicochemical and molecular data. Access to LIPABASE is free and available at http://www.lipabase-pfba-tun.org. |