Fatty acids are organic acids with at least one carboxyl (-C(=O)OH, -COOH or -CO2H) group and a long carbon chain that can be joined by double bonds, as in unsaturated fatty acids, or single bonds ...

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Fatty acid synthesis in bacteria is achieved by a highly conserved set of genes in which each gene encodes an individual step in the type II fatty acid biosynthetic pathway (Fig. 1).

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Introduction Very-long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) are defined as fatty acids with a carbon chain with more than 18 carbon atoms. In plants, they are found with a wide range of chain-lengths (up to 38 ...

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Fig 1. C. elegans fatty acid synthesis pathway and FAT-2 desaturase. (A) Simplified pathway of fatty acid synthesis and desaturation in C. elegans. Boxes indicate the name of the enzymes, FAT-2 ...