Synthesis of unbranched saturated fatty acids, redrawn from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturated_Fatty_Acid_Synthesis.png" title="File:Saturated Fatty Acid Synthesis.png">File:Saturated Fatty Acid Synthesis.png</a>. The grey dashed arrow indicates the cyclical character of this pathway. In each cycle, two C atoms from a malonyl-CoA molecule (top left) are added to a growing ACP-bound acyl chain, starting with an acetyl chain and continuing until a length of 16 C-atoms (palmitic acid).
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hbf878" title="User:Hbf878">Hbf878</a>
2019-04-23
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>