Description: Cholesterol esterase, also known as bile salt-stimulated lipase and carboxyl ester lipase, is an enzyme responsible for hydrolyzing cholesterol ester into cholesterol and free fatty acid within the intestinal lumen. This enzyme, synthesized and stored in zymogen granules within acinar cells, plays a...

Cholesterol Esterase is found primarily in pancreas and pancreatic secretions, but in other tissues as well. Bile salts, such as cholate and its conjugates, act as stabilizers of the native polymeric form of the enzyme and can protect it from proteolytic degradation in the intestine. Cholesterol esterase is an...