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The Carboxyl Ester Lipase produced from Human breast milk has a molecular mass of 79.322kDa (calculated without glycosylation) containing 733 amino acid residues. Bile salt-activated lipase (BAL or CEL) is a glycoprotein secreted from the pancreas into the digestive tract and from the lactating mammary gland into human milk. The milk of mammals, including humans, contains BAL to enable fat absorption in infants. The Human breast milk contains a bile salt activated lipase at very high levels. The physiological role of CEL is in cholesterol and lipid-soluble vitamin ester hydrolysis and absorption. BAL promotes large chylomicron production in the intestine. CELs presence in the plasma suggests its interactions with cholesterol and oxidized lipoproteins to modulate the progression of atherosclerosis. In pancreatic tumor cells, CEL is assumed to be sequestrated within the Golgi compartment and is probably not secreted.
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