“…Lipases (triacylglycerol acylhydrolase, EC 3.1.1.3) have been studied for the purpose of producing monoacylglycerols (MAG) and diacylglycerols (DAG) from different fats and oils via hydrolysis (Holmberg and Osterberg, 1988), esterification (Tsujisaka et al, 1977; Ergan et al, 1990; Akoh et al, 1992), and acyl-transfer or alcoholysis reactions (Schuch and Mukherjee, 1989; Holmberg et al, 1989;McNeill et al, 1990). Reaction mixtures have been configured as reverse micelles with anhydrous solvents as the continuous phase (Holmberg et al, 1989), with enzyme suspended in organic solvents (Pecnik and Knez, 1992; Akoh et al, 1992), or with enzyme simply suspended in substrate without added solvent (Tsujisaka et al, 1977; Schuch and Mukherjee, 1989;McNeill et al, 1990McNeill et al, , 1992Weiss, 1990;Ergan et al, 1990;. Reaction parameters have been studied for each configuration in attempts to optimize MAG production.…”