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Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology

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Figure 4 Fatty acid modification reactions occurring in plant endoplasmic reticulum. PChol<br />

indicates the phosphorylcholine group; other details are the same as in Figure 3.<br />

of its relative lability (perhaps due to instability when removed from the membrane),<br />

but the 12-MO is believed to function in a manner similar to membrane desaturases<br />

(145,146). Indeed, the electron transfer components of the hydroxylase <strong>and</strong> membrane<br />

desaturases are identical (cf. Sec. IV.C). The reaction utilizes reducing equivalents<br />

from NADH, <strong>and</strong> hydroxylation of 18:1 �9 occurs only upon esterification at<br />

the sn-2 position of phosphatidylcholine (PC) (147). In spite of the lability of the<br />

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