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Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology

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chain length acyl-ACP residues, <strong>and</strong> its presence is important (if not essential) to<br />

seed oils that accumulate medium chain fatty acids. See also Sec. C.2. ‘‘Flux <strong>and</strong><br />

Feedback Control.’’<br />

The putative product of plant FAS is palmitoyl-ACP (16:0-ACP). Thus, the<br />

action of KAS II represents the first elongation step [historically referred to as type<br />

III FAS (10)] that can occur, forming stearoyl-ACP (18:0-ACP) (Fig. 3). Since there<br />

is usually very little (

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