Umesh Kumar, who holds an M. Pharm in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and is a PhD research scholar at Hygia Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research in Lucknow, authored this document about fatty acid oxidation. The document discusses that fatty acids undergo oxidation through a process called beta-oxidation, in which two-carbon fragments are sequentially removed from the fatty acid as acetyl-CoA. This beta-oxidation occurs in three stages: activation of fatty acids in the cytosol, transport of fatty acids into mitochondria, and the beta-oxidation process within the mitochondrial matrix.

1. -Umesh Kumar
-M. Pharm (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
-PhD Research Scholar
Hygia Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and
Research, Lucknow

2. Fatty acid oxidation
Fatty acid oxidation
stages
β-Oxidation of palmitic
acid
Energentics of palmitic
acid

3. Generally fatty acids are
metabolize with oxidation
process.
This oxidation takes place at
the β-carbon of fatty acids,
hence it is called β-oxidation
This results in the sequential
removal of two carbon
fragments, Acetyl CoA.

5. Activation of fatty acids
occurring in cytosol.
Transport of fatty acids into
mitochondria.
β-Oxidation of in the
mitochondrial matrix

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