{"id":1797,"date":"2024-03-02T18:28:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T18:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2024-03-02T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T18:35:42","slug":"structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Biological fatty acids, members of the class of&nbsp;compounds&nbsp;known as&nbsp;carboxylic acids, are composed of a&nbsp;hydrocarbon&nbsp;chain with one terminal carboxyl group (COOH). The fragment of a carboxylic acid not including the hydroxyl (OH) group is called an acyl group. Under physiological conditions in water, this acidic group usually has lost a&nbsp;hydrogen ion&nbsp;(H<sup>+<\/sup>) to form a negatively charged carboxylate group (COO<sup>\u2212<\/sup>). Most biological fatty acids contain an even number of&nbsp;carbon&nbsp;atoms because the biosynthetic pathway common to all organisms involves chemically linking two-carbon units together (although relatively small amounts of odd-number fatty acids do occur in some organisms). Although the&nbsp;molecule&nbsp;as a whole is water-insoluble by virtue of its hydrophobic hydrocarbon chain, the negatively charged carboxylate is hydrophilic. This common form for biological lipids\u2014one that contains well-separated hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts\u2014is called amphipathic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to straight-chain hydrocarbons, fatty acids may also contain pairs of carbons linked by one or more double bonds, methyl branches, or a three-carbon cyclopropane ring near the centre of the carbon chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biological fatty acids, members of the class of&nbsp;compounds&nbsp;known as&nbsp;carboxylic acids, are composed of a&nbsp;hydrocarbon&nbsp;chain with one terminal carboxyl group (COOH). The fragment of a carboxylic acid not including the hydroxyl (OH) group is called an acyl group. Under physiological conditions in water, this acidic group usually has lost a&nbsp;hydrogen ion&nbsp;(H+) to form a negatively charged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lipids"],"Cooking_time":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}