biochemistry, fatty acid synthesis is the creation of fatty acids from acetyl-CoA and NADPH through the action of enzymes called fatty acid synthases. This...
41 KB (4,743 words) - 16:42, 11 July 2024
Fatty acid metabolism consists of various metabolic processes involving or closely related to fatty acids, a family of molecules classified within the...
50 KB (5,557 words) - 08:08, 10 July 2024
Lipogenesis (redirect from Triglyceride synthesis)
Lipogenesis encompasses both fatty acid and triglyceride synthesis, with the latter being the process by which fatty acids are esterified to glycerol before...
17 KB (2,179 words) - 13:27, 31 May 2024
the synthesis of palmitate (C16:0, a long-chain saturated fatty acid) from acetyl-CoA and malonyl-CoA, in the presence of NADPH. The fatty acids are synthesized...
35 KB (4,020 words) - 10:13, 27 March 2024
cycle, the glyoxylate cycle, amino acid synthesis, fatty acid synthesis and the citric acid cycle. Oxaloacetic acid undergoes successive deprotonations...
12 KB (1,159 words) - 10:09, 7 July 2024
Then, the enzyme fatty-acid synthase is responsible for turning malonlyl-CoA into fatty-acid chain. De novo fatty-acid synthesis is mainly not active...
11 KB (1,283 words) - 08:07, 16 July 2024
biosynthesis. Malonyl-CoA provides 2-carbon units to fatty acids and commits them to fatty acid chain synthesis. Malonyl-CoA is formed by carboxylating acetyl-CoA...
6 KB (574 words) - 09:54, 7 March 2024
acid, also known as alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) (from Greek alpha meaning "first" and linon meaning flax), is an n−3, or omega-3, essential fatty acid...
22 KB (2,008 words) - 11:18, 30 June 2024
Beta oxidation (redirect from Fatty acid oxidation)
beta oxidation (also β-oxidation) is the catabolic process by which fatty acid molecules are broken down in the cytosol in prokaryotes and in the mitochondria...
32 KB (3,362 words) - 15:08, 28 May 2024
Decarboxylation (section Fatty acid synthesis)
Straight-chain fatty acid synthesis occurs by recurring reactions involving decarboxylation of malonyl-CoA. Upon heating, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinolic acid decarboxylates...
12 KB (1,289 words) - 10:16, 20 May 2024