Table 3.

Lipase-catalyzed transesterification of EMP48-D and T.1.2 lipases using caprylic acid and palmitic acid as the substrates

Enzyme	Substrate	Incubation time (hour)	Final FFA (%)	FA conversion (%)
EMP48-D	Caprylic acid	5	22.88 ± 0.70	61.98 ± 1.16
		24	21.25 ± 0.61	64. 69 ± 1.01
	Palmitic acid	5	18.15 ± 1.75	70.59 ± 2.83
		24	14.04 ± 0.32	77.25 ± 0.51
Lipase T.1.2	Caprylic acid	5	26.98 ± 1.31	55.18 ± 2.18
		24	26.71 ± 1.22	55.62 ± 2.03
	Palmitic acid	5	24.553 ± 0.50	60.223 ± 0.81
		24	23.868 ± 0.22	61.333 ± 0.35
Control	Caprylic acid	-	60.194 ± 0.72	-
	Palmitic acid	-	61.727 ± 0.88	-

The activity was expressed as the mean ± standard deviation