Glycerol is an important intermediate of lipid catabolism and also a representative non-sugar carbon source in fermentation engineering and metabolic engineering. Unlike classical substrates such as glucose, glycerol must undergo specific transport, phosphorylation, or dehydrogenation steps ...
Acetyl-group metabolism lies at the intersection of central carbon metabolism, lipid synthesis, post-translational protein modification, and epigenetic regulation. Interconversion among acetyl-CoA, acetate, citrate, and multiple acyl intermediates not only determines the direction of carbon-flux ...