The End of Chapter Three

Today we finished our treatment of the biosynthesis of fatty acids. This was the end of the material that we will cover in chapter three. We then had a look at some of the big topics that came up in this chapter: catalytic triad, FAD/FADH2 redox, NADH/NAD+ redox, ATP for making leaving groups at carboxylic acid centers, biotin/bicarbonate-mediated manufacture of CO2, non-H pro-R and pro-S atoms, etc.