Term Information

Accession
GO:0042761
Name
very long-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
very-long-chain fatty acid anabolism, very-long-chain fatty acid biosynthesis, very-long-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process, very-long-chain fatty acid formation, very-long-chain fatty acid synthesis
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a very long chain fatty acid, a fatty acid with an aliphatic tail of 22 or more carbons. Source: PMID:7744868
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0042761 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of very long-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0042761)
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very long-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0000038)
very long-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0006633)

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MetaCyc
PWY-5080