Most fats within this species are stored as triglycerides (TGs). TGs are composed out of a glycerol backbone, connecting three fatty acid chains.

Authors

Chris Evelo , Maintenance bot , Daniela Digles , Eric Weitz , Franziska Kreidl , and Denise Slenter

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Organism

Caenorhabditis elegans

Communities

Lipids and LIPID MAPS

Annotations

Pathway Ontology: triacylglycerol biosynthetic pathway

Participants

Label	Type	Compact Identifier
Glycerol	Metabolite	chebi:17754
Glycerol-3-phosphate	Metabolite	chebi:15978
Triacylglycerol	Metabolite	chebi:17855
Dihydroxyacetone phosphate	Metabolite	chebi:16108
Dihydroxyacetonephosphate	Metabolite	chebi:16108
acl-2	GeneProduct	ncbigene:179398
C05D11.7	GeneProduct	ncbigene:175910
gly-20	GeneProduct	ncbigene:179562
C46C11.1	GeneProduct	ncbigene:180737
acl-11	GeneProduct	ncbigene:185044
acl-7	GeneProduct	ncbigene:174916
F53C3.13	GeneProduct	ncbigene:173734
gly-14	GeneProduct	ncbigene:175453
ads-1	GeneProduct	ncbigene:175192
acl-6	GeneProduct	ncbigene:178928
Y53G8B.2	GeneProduct	ncbigene:175417
lipase	GeneProduct	ncbigene:179771
K11H3.1	GeneProduct	ncbigene:176399
R11F4.1	GeneProduct	ncbigene:173747

References

1. Barros AG de A, Liu J, Lemieux GA, Mullaney BC, Ashrafi K. Analyses of C. elegans fat metabolic pathways. Methods Cell Biol. 2012;107:383–407. PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
2. Srinivasan S. Regulation of body fat in Caenorhabditis elegans. Annu Rev Physiol. 2015;77:161–78. PubMed Europe PMC Scholia