Obsolete Term Information

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Accession
GO:1990653
Name
obsolete monounsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
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Alternate IDs
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Definition
OBSOLETE. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a monounsaturated fatty acid. A monounsaturated fatty acid has one double bond in the fatty acid chain with all of the remainder carbon atoms being single-bonded, as opposed to polyunsaturated fatty acids. Source: PMID:16443825, GOC:hjd
Comment
For example, stearoyl-coenzyme A desaturase (Scd) catalyzes the desaturation of saturated fatty acids to monounsaturated fatty acids in mammals and yeast.
History
See term history for GO:1990653 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
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Subset
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