lipolysis

traitmech:000190 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A metabolism in which a microorganism hydrolyzes triacylglycerols into fatty acids and glycerol through lipase-catalyzed ester cleavage.

Trait evidence (2)

DOI:10.1186/s12934-020-01428-8
Microbial lipases (EC 3.1.1.3) catalyze the hydrolysis of long chain triglycerides

Chandra et al. review microbial lipases and their use in long-chain triglyceride hydrolysis.
DOI:10.1007/s00253-004-1568-8
Lipases, triacylglycerol hydrolases, are an important group of biotechnologically relevant enzymes

Gupta et al. review bacterial lipases as microbial enzymes for triacylglycerol hydrolysis.

Provenance

Identifier source: TraitMech local identifier
Definition source: DOI:10.1186/s12934-020-01428-8

Parent traits (1)

metabolism METPO:1000060

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Discussions and Knowledge Gaps (1)

Open questions attached to this trait. Seeded by just knowledge-gap-scan and curated; see the corpus-wide index.

Resolve an exact external ontology xref for organism-level microbial lipolysis before adding a TraitRecord xref.

CURATION TODO OPEN lipolysis-xref-gap · raised by codex · 2026-09-14

Not yet attached to a section of this record — a curator sets attaches_to (e.g. causal_graphs#some_edge) so the gap shows beside the mechanism it concerns.

The pinned METPO snapshot contains only obsolete METPO:1000175 lipolysis, and GO:0016298 denotes the lipase molecular function rather than the organism-level lipid-hydrolysis trait. GO lipid catabolic process classes also include downstream fatty-acid catabolism and are broader than lipase-driven triacylglycerol hydrolysis.

Curation history

2026-09-14T21:00:00Z · MINTED_TRAITMECH_ID · codex
Minted lipolysis as a DOI-backed metabolism TraitRecord after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files; METPO has only an obsolete lipolysis class.