Bacterial fatty acid biosynthesis is a central metabolic process, intricately linked to membrane formation and pathogenicity. The type II fatty acid synthesis (FASII) pathway, distinct from the ...

The raw material for de novo fatty acid synthesis is acetyl-CoA, which can be obtained via the citrate shuttle pathway or from acetic acid. ACC and FASN catalyze the conversion of acetyl-CoA into ...

A compound from ginger stops cancer cells from making fats and drains their energy, exposing a metabolic weakness in cancer cells.

Scientists from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a lipid-rich mutant strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a ...