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(Solved): Part D: -Oxidation Fatty Acid synthesis 1. The following fatty acid enters the -oxidation spira ...
Part D: -Oxidation Fatty Acid synthesis 1. The following fatty acid enters the -oxidation spiral; and the product shown below is produced (HINT: this process did not go to completion). a. Determine the number of oxidation cycles. b. Determine the number of acetyl CoA molecules produced. c. How many molecules were produced? d. How many NADH molecules were produced? e. How much ATP would be produced (remember to enter -oxidation the fatty acid must first be activated)? ATP
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a. To determine the number of ?-oxidation cycles, we need to count the number of carbons in the fatty acid chain that entered the process and subtract two. In this case, the fatty acid has 16 carbons, so the number of ?-oxidation cycles is (16 - 2) = 14 cycles.a. In ?-oxidation, fatty acid chains are sequentially shortened by the removal of two-carbon units. Each round of ?-oxidation involves four main steps: oxidation, hydration, oxidation, and thiolysis. The process stops when only two carbons remain in the chain. Thus, to determine the number of ?-oxidation cycles, we subtract two from the total number of carbons in the fatty acid chain. In this case, the fatty acid has 16 carbons, so the number of ?-o