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A fatty acid desaturase is an enzyme that removes two hydrogen atoms from a fatty acid creating a carbon/carbon double bond. These desaturases are classified as delta – indicating that the double bond is created at a fixed position from the carboxyl group of a fatty acid (for example Δ9desaturase creates a double bond at the 9th position from the carboxyl end). omega (e.g.

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