Outlook: Membrane junctions enable the metabolic trapping of fatty acids by intracellular acyl-CoA synthetases

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 OCT, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Füllekrug, Joachim ^a   Ehehalt, Robert ^a   Poppelreuther, Margarete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acyl coa synthetase; Fatty acid uptake; Lipid metabolism; Membrane junctions; Metabolic trapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870936542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00401     Document Type: Article

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