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What is a free fatty acid called?
unesterified
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What is the structure of a fatty acid?
hydrophobic hydrocarbon chain with terminal carboxyl group
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What type of fatty acid has no double bonds?
saturated
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Are fatty acids with double bonds usually cis or trans?
Cis
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how many carbons are between each double bond?
3
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what is the number given to the carboxyl carbon, alpha carbon, beta carbon?
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What are the two essential fatty acids?
- Linoleic acid
- Alpha-Linolenic acid
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what becomes essential if linoleic acid is deficient?
arachidonic acid
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What is needed for acetyl CoA to cross the mitochondrial membrane into the cytoplasm?
- Acetyl and OAA cross via Citrate (citrate synthase)
- CoA is able to cross on own
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What enzyme is used to seperate citrate into Acetyl and OAA after it crosses the inner mito membrane?
ATP-Citrate lyase
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What enzyme carboxylates Acetyl CoA to Malonyl CoA?
Acetyl CoA carboxylase and biotin
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What enzyme is regulatory in the making of fatty acids?
acetyl CoA carboxylase
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How many carbons are in a FA chain?
16
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how many steps how many times to make palmitate?
7 steps repeated 5 times
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What enzyme is used to attach fatty acids to glycerol back bone?
acyltransferase
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what is needs to be removed before the last fatty acid is added?
phosphate
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What is the glycerol backbone?
glycerol-3-phosphate
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What enzyme converts DHAP to glycerol-3-phosphate?
Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
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what enzyme is used to conver glycerol in the liver and kidney to glycerol-3-phosphate?
glycerol kinase
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What converts FA to activeated form?
CoA
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