| Name : | Branched chain fatty acid oxidation | ||||||||||||||
| Organism : | Aspergillus fumigatus | ||||||||||||||
| Description : | Branched chain fatty acids have a carbon scaffold with methyl branches. In mammals, the enzymes that allow the oxidation are:
a) enzymes that allow the alpha-oxidation, displacing the 3-methyl from the fatty acid scaffold, b) AMACR, which converts (2R)-methyl fatty acids to (2S)-methyl fatty acids, c) and the beta-oxidation enzymes. |
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Lipid metabolism
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