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Nature Chemical Biology 4, 340 (1 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/nchembio0608-340

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ACPs add up Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are important in human nutrition, and understanding their biosynthetic pathways could lead to the controlled and sustainable availability of specific PUFAs. Unlike other biosynthetic systems that use one acyl carrier protein (ACP) per iterative cycle, the PUFA biosynthesis machinery contains multiple copies of these domains in tandem.