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Irrespective of the nature of their individual fatty acid synthetases, all plants and micro-organisms that synthesise fatty acids de novo require the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase and a source of acetyl-CoA in order to provide the necessary malonyl-CoA.
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Harwood, J.L., Russell, N.J. (1984). Biosynthesis. In: Lipids in Plants and Microbes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5989-0_4
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