Question 434 · LDEK · Etiology and pathogenesis of caries
What is the role of saliva lipases?
- A. catalysis in the hydrogen-peroxide system.
- B. release of peptidoglycans.
- C. hydrolysis of triglycerides.
- D. increase in the availability of oligosaccharides.
- E. agglutination of bacteria.
Hint
Match the enzyme to the class of dietary substrate its name refers to, and assign the other functions to other salivary proteins.
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