Component
Methyl-branched fatty acid abundance
Methyl-branched fatty acid abundance
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
How nutrients influence it
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Other things that act on it
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How nutrients reach it in more than one step
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What it does
Every recorded relationship this component is part of, grouped by its role. Plain wording comes first; the technical statement follows.
What acts on it
Despite lower acyl-CoA pools, B12 supplementation barely changed measured methyl-branched fatty acids in ECHDC1-knockout L929 adipocytes.
Experimental context and source evidence
- availability_state
- machinery_impairment Imported condition classification; unverified.
- cross_nutrient
- false
- evidence_location
- Full text Results: vitamin B12 supplementation; Figure 4g-u
- experimental_model
- Differentiating ECHDC1-knockout mouse L929 adipocytes (Figure 4g-u)
- exposure
- ECHDC1 knockout; 2.5 micromolar supplementary B12 during differentiation
- limitations
- GC-MS abundance endpoint; do not infer unchanged synthesis flux or universal myelin effects.
- nutrient_topic
- Vitamin B12 research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Vitamin B12 (cobalamins)
- organism
- Mus musculus
- plain_language
- Lower precursor pools did not translate into a large branched-fat reduction in this mouse-cell model. The cells had ECHDC1 deleted.
- primary_references
- [dewulf-2019-l929-b12] The synthesis of branched-chain fatty acids is limited by enzymatic decarboxylation of ethyl- and methylmalonyl-CoA. (2019). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31416829/ DOI: 10.1042/bcj20190500
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Adipocytes
- trigger_kind
- machinery_impairment Imported condition classification; unverified.
Vitamin B12: mechanisms, deficiency and nutrient interactions (2026-09-17) · lines 1286–1298
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Differentiating ECHDC1-knockout mouse L929 adipocytes (Figure 4g-u) · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### l929-b12-limited-lipid-response Despite lower acyl-CoA pools, B12 supplementation barely changed measured methyl-branched fatty acids in ECHDC1-knockout L929 adipocytes. Condition category: machinery_impairment nutrient_topic: Vitamin B12 research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. plain_language: Lower precursor pools did not translate into a large branched-fat reduction in this mouse-cell model. The cells had ECHDC1 deleted. organism: Mus musculus tissue_or_cell_type: Adipocytes experimental_model: Differentiating ECHDC1-knockout mouse L929 adipocytes (Figure 4g-u) limitations: GC-MS abundance endpoint; do not infer unchanged synthesis flux or universal myelin effects. exposure: ECHDC1 knockout; 2.5 micromolar supplementary B12 during differentiation cross_nutrient: false evidence_location: Full text Results: vitamin B12 supplementation; Figure 4g-u [dewulf-2019-l929-b12] The synthesis of branched-chain fatty acids is limited by enzymatic decarboxylation of ethyl- and methylmalonyl-CoA. (2019). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31416829/ DOI: 10.1042/bcj20190500
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The events it takes part in
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Situations it appears in
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In the sources
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Open hypotheses
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