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What is beta-oxidation of fat(in mitochondria)?
Asked by pb_ckt | 02 May, 2019, 09:49: PM
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Beta-oxidation is the catabolic process by which fatty acid molecules are broken down in the cytosol in prokaryotes and in the mitochondria in eukaryotes to generate acetyl co-A, which enters the citric acid cycle, and NADH and FADH2, which are co-enzymes used in the electron transport chain.
β-oxidation of fatty acids results in cleavage of two-carbon units (α and β carbons) from the carboxyl end of fatty acyl-CoA with the formation of acetyl CoA. This reaction keeps occuring till the entire fatty acyl chain is broken down to acetyl CoA molecules.
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