Chapter 17 Further reading

Synthesis of fat and related compounds

• Smith, S. (1994). The animal fatty acid synthase: one gene, one polypeptide, seven enzymes. FASEBJ., 8, 1248–59.

Illustrated article on the structure and function of this remarkable protein.

• Rooney, S.A., Young, S.L., and Mendelson, C.R. (1994). Molecular and cellular processing of lung surfactant. FASEB J., 8, 957–67.

Reviews a more physiological role of phospholipid—that of lining the alveoli.

• Dowhan, W. (2013). A retrospective: Use of Escherichia coli as a vehicle to study phospholipid synthesis and function. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1831(3), 471–94. 

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