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why is alpha-linolenic acid "alpha"?
I'm learning about how fatty acid names are formed. In the process, I noticed a molecule called alpha-linolenic acid. There's a similar molecule called linoleic acid. Both have 18 carbons, but alpha-...
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Automatically extracting SMILES of sub-group of larger SMILES structure?
Is there any software tool that can automatically extract SMILES of fatty acid legs of phospholipids if the SMILES of the parent lipid is given? Or any tool that can do it in InChI ?
Any advice will ...
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Biochemically speaking, why aren't the cell membranes of eukaryotic, multicellular organisms made of more heat-resistant stuff?
TL;DR: there are lipids out there that are more heat-resistant than those in current cell membranes, yet current cell membranes don't have them. Why?
I've cobbled together various miscellaneous ...
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How much lipoic acid is contained within octanoic acid? [closed]
As I understand it, lipoic acid is synthesized from octanoic acid:
Lipoic acid is synthesized de novo in mitochondria from octanoic acid, an 8-carbon fatty acid (C8:0), bound to the acyl-carrier ...
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