Term Information

Accession
GO:0051790
Name
short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
short chain fatty acid biosynthesis, short chain fatty acid biosynthetic process, short-chain fatty acid anabolism, short-chain fatty acid biosynthesis, short-chain fatty acid formation, short-chain fatty acid synthesis
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a fatty acid with an aliphatic tail of less than 6 carbons. Source: Wikipedia:Fatty_acid_metabolism
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0051790 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0051790)
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short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0006633)
short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0046459)
Children of short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0051790)
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propionate biosynthetic process (GO:0019542) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process
butyrate biosynthetic process (GO:0046358) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process
2-oxobutyrate biosynthetic process (GO:0046360) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process
acetoacetic acid biosynthetic process (GO:0043441) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process
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