Talk:Fatty acid synthesis

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"Although this reaction is thermodynamically unfavourable, the evolution of CO2 drives the reaction forward." This statement is confused, I think the author meant that the reaction is enthalpically unfavourable but is driven by the favourable entropy increase due to CO2 release, hence giving an overall negative Gibbs Free Energy. After all, entropy is part of thermodynamics :), could this be clarified? I wanted to check the author's meaning before I corrected it myself. Azo bob (talk) 20:17, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

=No references= There are no references what so ever for the article, and also the last link is dead. I'm really no expert on this subject, especially concerning human physiology. Panoramix303 (talk) 17:20, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

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This page has been completely redone as part of a project for Microbial Physiology at Colorado State University. It pertains mostly to fatty acid synthesis in prokaryotes. All appropriate references have been provided. The information has also been reviewed by professors of Microbial Physiology at CSU. 2 May 2011

File:Aerobic desaturation.png Nominated for speedy Deletion
ATTENTION: For this and other very technical articles like it, please consider ordinary readers by providing an explanation that can be understood by a lay person. . I am reading this article because i want to be able to critically read an article elsewhere written by someone calling themselves DrBenKim (name of website) I don't agree with his conclusions but i know some what he is saying is sensible. I would like to understand what he is talking about better. In this article he refers to Ketones being made from the liver to fuel a fasting brain. This may be true but i wanted to know more about ketones - which on wikipedia is another very technical article. In there i read "fatty acid synthetic" but can't understand hardly a sentence of this entry on wikipedia         Makeitcomprehensibletolaypeople (talk) 08:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

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Wrong image/definition of omega-numbering
I noticed that the image for carbon numbering in the footnote is wrong, and the text is probably wrong too. In the omega-notation, the carbons are numbered "ω", "ω−1", "ω−2", etc. That is, "ω−1" is the next-to-last carbon, not the last one. See File:Fatty acid carbon numbering.png for the correct image, and for the correct explanation. All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 03:23, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis
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Could someone who is an expert in the field of fatty acid synthesis add a section to the article regarding the pathway of mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis (mtFASII)? This pathway is significant and still missing. Abvdj (talk) 17:39, 24 June 2023 (UTC)