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Biotechnol Bioeng
; 83(3): 274-81, 2003 Aug 05.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12783483
RESUMO
The kinetics of the lipase-catalyzed (Pseudomonas cepacia) ethanolysis of fish oil has been studied in a batch reactor using menhaden oil, tuna oil, and acylglycerol mixtures derived from menhaden oil. Multi-response models derived from a generalized Michaelis-Menten mechanism were developed to describe the rates of formation of ethyl esters of the primary fatty acids present in the precursor oil. A first-order model for deactivation of the lipase was fit simultaneously to one of the data sets.