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      Phytanic Acid Peroxisomal Oxidation
Homo sapiens
            Metabolic Pathway
            
          Created: 2013-08-01
          Last Updated: 2025-01-23
        
           Phytanic acid, a branched chain fatty acid, is an important component of fatty acid intake, occuring in meat, fish and dairy products.  Due to its methylation, it cannot be a substrate for acyl-CoA dehydrogenase and cannot enter the mitochondrial beta oxidation pathway.  Phytanic acid is instead activated to its CoA ester form by a CoA synthetase to phytanoyl-CoA, where it can begin the first cycle of alpha oxidation.  Phytanoyl-CoA is a substrate for a specific alpha-hydroxylase (Phytanoyl-CoA hydroxylase), which adds a hydroxyl group to the α-carbon of phytanic acid, creating the 19-carbon homologue, pristanic acid.  Pristanic acid then undergoes further metabolism through beta oxidation. 
        
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      Phytanic Acid Peroxisomal Oxidation References
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