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. 2014 Oct 10;5:528. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00528

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Copyright © 2014 Torto-Alalibo, Purwantini, Lomax, Setubal, Mukhopadhyay and Tyler.

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Biosynthesis of fatty acids, fatty alkanes and fatty alcohols described with the Gene Ontology. Fatty acids are generated from acetyl-CoA and malonyl-CoA precursors through fatty acid synthases. Acyl-ACPs, which are intermediates of the fatty acid biosynthetic process, are reduced to fatty alcohols or deformylated to form alkanes. Enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of the fatty acid derivatives are described with appropriate GO Molecular Function terms (colored sky blue), Biological Process terms (tan) and the Cellular Component terms (green). Relevant references are in the text. Figure is based on information provided in Lennen and Pfleger (2013).