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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 7.
Published in final edited form as: PET Clin. 2009 Apr;4(2):163–172. doi: 10.1016/j.cpet.2009.05.001

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Simplified Schematic of Fatty Acid Synthesis: Fatty Acid Synthase (FAS) catalyses the de-novo synthesis of fatty acid from Actetyl-CoA, Malonyl-CoA and NADPH. Following several reactions and modifications fatty acids are incorporated into membranes as phospholipids.