Mitochondrial fatty acid β-oxidation (FAO) is crucial in the prodcution of energy, especially during fasting and metabolic stress. Fatty acids (FAs) are oxidized through 4 reaction mechanisms, and this pathway describes the mitochondrial beta-oxidation of dietary long chain fatty acids.

Authors

Niradiz Reyes , 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: fatty acid beta degradation pathway

Participants

Label	Type	Compact Identifier
Trans-Δ²-Enoyl-CoA	Metabolite	chebi:10723
dif-1	GeneProduct	ncbigene:177530
cpt-2	GeneProduct	ncbigene:178025
T08G2.3	GeneProduct	ncbigene:181757
F54C8.1	GeneProduct	ncbigene:186222
T08B2.7	GeneProduct	ncbigene:172310
cpt-1	GeneProduct	ncbigene:174912
E04F6.5	GeneProduct	ncbigene:174180
F37C12.7	GeneProduct	ncbigene:176005
Y65B4BL.5	GeneProduct	ncbigene:171643
Y57A10C.6	GeneProduct	ncbigene:174881
acs-17	GeneProduct	ncbigene:180859

References

1. Elle IC, Rødkær SV, Fredens J, Færgeman NJ. A method for measuring fatty acid oxidation in C. elegans. Worm. 2012 Jan 1;1(1):26–30. PubMed Europe PMC Scholia