📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
🔹 Biochemistry
Fatty Acid Synthesis
- Organs where fatty acid synthesis occurs
• Subcellular site of fatty acid synthesis - Source of acetyl CoA
• Transport of acetyl CoA from mitochondria - Steps of fatty acid synthesis
• Enzymes involved - Fatty acid synthase
• Structure and components - Product of fatty acid synthase
• Fate of fatty acid - Regulation of fatty acid synthesis
- Why fatty acids cannot convert to glucose
- Elongation of fatty acids
• Desaturation of fatty acids
• Regulation of elongation and desaturation
Fatty Acid Oxidation
- Mobilization of fats from adipose tissue
- Methods of fatty acid oxidation
- Beta oxidation stages
- Reactions of beta oxidation
- ATP yield from palmitic acid
- Oxidation of odd-chain fatty acids
- Genetic deficiencies
- MCAD deficiency
- CAT deficiency
- Comparison of fatty acid synthesis vs oxidation
