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Beta oxidation
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Beta oxidation
In
biochemistry
and
metabolism
,
beta-oxidation
is the
catabolic process
by which
fatty acid
molecules are broken down in the
mitochondria
to generate
acetyl-CoA
, which enters the
citric acid cycle
, and
NADH
and
FADH2
, which are co-enzymes used in the
electron transport chain
. It is named as such because the
beta carbon
of the fatty acid undergoes oxidation to a
carbonyl
group. Various mechanisms have evolved to handle the large variety of fatty acids.
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