Can serum amylase and lipase levels be used as diagnostic markers to distinguish between patients with mucinous cystic lesions of the pancreas, chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma?

Interest in use of resistant starch and maltooligosaccharides as functional foods and biopreservatives has grown in recent years. In this research, a novel debranching enzyme IsoM from Corallococcus sp. strain EGB was identified and expressed in P. pastoris GS115. Sequence alignments showed that IsoM was typical isoamylase with the specific activity up to 70,600 U/mg, which belongs to glycoside hydrolase family 13 (GH 13). Enzymatic reaction...