GO:0001561: fatty acid alpha-oxidation (Biological process)

"A metabolic pathway by which 3-methyl branched fatty acids are degraded. These compounds are not degraded by the normal peroxisomal beta-oxidation pathway, because the 3-methyl blocks the dehydrogenation of the hydroxyl group by hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase. The 3-methyl branched fatty acid is converted in several steps to pristenic acid, which can then feed into the beta-oxidative pathway." [PMID:10198260]


There are 31 sequences with this label.



Enriched clusters
Name Species % in cluster p-value corrected p-value action
Cluster_234 Arabidopsis thaliana 1.64 % 0.002206 0.04621
Sequences (31) (download table)



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