lipid synthesis

[superduper12]

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After taking biochem, i should know this...but where/how does lipid synthesis occur?

 

[superduper12]

oh...the smooth er.

 

[Farcus]

yep it is in the smooth endoplastmic reticiulum. heh you don't need biochem for that... more like intro bio 1.

 

[sunsfan]

This gets me confused, too. My biochem book explicitly says that fatty acid synthesis happens in the cytosol. Lipids for the membrane, however, are synthesized in the Smooth ER.

 

[requeim]

i think this happens because when vesicles are created by the Golgi and they go to the membrane and empty their contents, they can become part of the membrane. just a guess...