Interfacial and temporal organization of enzymatic lipolysis

Water-soluble lipolytic enzymes act mainly at the water/lipid interface where their catalytic reactions are coupled with various interfacial phenomena such as penetration and activation of the enzyme, as well as desorption of the soluble products, solubilization in the presence of acceptors or molecular reorganization of the insoluble reaction products, inhibition, and so on. Various models have been proposed to analyze the kinetic data.