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Accession
GO:0051792
Name
medium-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
medium chain fatty acid biosynthesis, medium chain fatty acid biosynthetic process, medium-chain fatty acid anabolism, medium-chain fatty acid biosynthesis, medium-chain fatty acid formation, medium-chain fatty acid synthesis
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a medium-chain fatty acid. A medium-chain fatty acid has an aliphatic tail containing 6 to 12 carbons. Source: Wikipedia:Fatty_acid_metabolism
Comment
While there is not universal consensus on the lengths of short-, medium-, long- and very-long-chain fatty acids, the GO uses the definitions in ChEBI (see CHEBI:26666, CHEBI:59554, CHEBI:15904 and CHEBI:27283).
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Parents of medium-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0051792)
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medium-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  medium-chain fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0051791)
medium-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process [RO:0004008 relation] RO:0004008  medium-chain fatty acid anion (CHEBI:59558)
medium-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0006633)

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