GO:0001561: fatty acid alpha-oxidation (Biological process)

"A metabolic pathway by which 3-methyl branched fatty acids are degraded. These compounds are not degraded by the normal peroxisomal beta-oxidation pathway, because the 3-methyl blocks the dehydrogenation of the hydroxyl group by hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase. The 3-methyl branched fatty acid is converted in several steps to pristenic acid, which can then feed into the beta-oxidative pathway." [PMID:10198260]


There are 10 sequences with this label.

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Name Species % in cluster p-value corrected p-value action
Sequences (10) (download table)

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