The Various Roles of Fatty Acids
Lipids comprise a large group of chemically heterogeneous compounds. The majority have fatty acids (FA) as part of their structure, making these compounds suitable tools to examine processes raging from cellular to macroscopic levels of organization. Among the multiple roles of FA, they have structu...
Main Authors: | Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho, Maria José Caramujo |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
MDPI AG
2018-10-01
|
Series: | Molecules |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/10/2583 |
Similar Items
-
Challenges in Fatty Acid and Lipid Physiology
by: Jan eGlatz
Published: (2011-08-01) -
The biofilm lifestyle involves an increase in bacterial membrane saturated fatty acids
by: Florence Dubois-Brissonnet, et al.
Published: (2016-10-01) -
FACS-assisted single-cell lipidome analysis of phosphatidylcholines and sphingomyelins in cells of different lineages
by: Sarah E. Hancock, et al.
Published: (2023-03-01) -
The diversity and breadth of cancer cell fatty acid metabolism
by: Shilpa R. Nagarajan, et al.
Published: (2021-01-01) -
Lipid droplets and polyunsaturated fatty acid trafficking: Balancing life and death
by: Mauro Danielli, et al.
Published: (2023-01-01)