Front Matter

Contents

Preface V

Uwe T. Bornscheuer (University of Greifswald, Germany)

Foreword VII

Friedrich Spener (President of the DGF, University of Mu ̈nster, Germany)

Lipases

1 The Exploitation of Lipase Selectivities for the Production

of Acylglycerols 3

Rob Diks and John Bosley (Unilever, Vlaardingen, The Netherlands, and

Colworth, UK)

2 Fractionation of Fatty Acids and other Lipids Using Lipases 23

Kumar D. Mukherjee (Institute for Biochemistry and Technology of Lipids,

Mu ̈nster, Germany)

3 Lipid Modification in Water-in-Oil Microemulsions 46

Douglas G. Hayes (Alabama University, Huntsville, AL, USA)

4 Cloning, Mutagenesis and Biochemical Properties of a Lipase

from the FungusRhizopus delemar 70

Michael J. Haas, David G. Bailey, Wilber Baker, Thomas R. Berka,

David J. Cichowitz , Zygmunt S. Derewenda, Robert R. Genuario,

Rolf D. Joerger, Robert R. Klein, Karen Scott and Deborah J. Woolf

(USDA, Wyndmoor, PA, USA)

5 Molecular Basis of Specificity and Stereoselectivity of Microbial

Lipases toward Triacylglycerols 85

Ju ̈rgen Pleiss (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

6 Lipase-Catalyzed Synthesis of Regioisomerically Pure Mono- and

Diglycerides 100

B. Aha, M. Berger, B. Jakob, G. Machmu ̈ller, C. Waldinger and

Manfred M. Schneider (University of Wuppertal, Germany)