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Mitochondrial
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Mitochondria.
Mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis
Mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis (mtFAS) is essential for cellular respiration and mitochondrial biogenesis. In response to mitochondrial acetyl-CoA availability, mtFAS builds acyl chains on the 4'-phosphopantetheine group of the matrix-soluble scaffold protein ACP (holo-ACP), producing acyl-ACP species with varying chain lengths of at least eight carbons.