inside the mitochondria fatty acid oxidation take place. general
procesure given as below
- most fat stored in eukaryotic organism as triglyceride with use
of enzyme 'lipase' triglyceride break into glycerol molecule and
three fatty acid
- 'Acyl- CoA synthase' yield fatty acid to fatty acyl CoA before
enter into mitochondria.
- after fatty acid been acylated it is ready to enter into
mitochondria
- there are two carrier protein 'carnitine acyl transferase I and
II' one located outer membrane and one located inner membrane of
mitochondria both help for entry of acyl CoA into
mitochondria.
- once inside mitochondria the fatty acid -CoA can enter into
beta oxidation.
- Beta oxidation of fatty acid take place into mitochondria and
cleaved acyl CoA formed inter into TCA and ETC because it is
allready whithin mitochondria.