Term Information

Accession
GO:1903966
Name
monounsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
monounsaturated fatty acid anabolism, monounsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis, monounsaturated fatty acid formation, monounsaturated fatty acid synthesis
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of monounsaturated fatty acid. Source: PMID:16443825, GOC:TermGenie, GOC:hjd, GO_REF:0000068
Comment
For example, stearoyl-coenzyme A desaturase (Scd) catalyzes the desaturation of saturated fatty acids to monounsaturated fatty acids in mammals and yeast.
History
See term history for GO:1903966 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of monounsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:1903966)
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monounsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0006633)
monounsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  monounsaturated fatty acid metabolic process (GO:1903964)

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