fatty acyl-coenzyme A
fatty acyl-coenzyme A
[′fad·ē ′as·əl kō¦en‚zīm ′ā] (biochemistry)
Activated form of fatty acids formed by the enzyme acyl-coenzyme A synthetase at the expense of adenosinetriphosphate. Also known as acyl-coenzyme A.
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SCD5, responsible for introducing a double bond in
fatty acyl-coenzyme A at the delta 9 position, was the most abundant transcript (~15.6%) with more than 5-fold increase in mRNA expression.
This hormone increases insulin sensitivity, increases expression of the muscle insulin receptor, and decreases intramuscular lipids and the
fatty acyl-coenzyme A molecules that can cause insulin resistance, he explained.
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