KROK 1 2009 – Question 32 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A patient with high rate of obesity was advised to use carnitine as a food additive in order to enhance "fat burning". What is the role of carnitine in the process of fat oxidation?
- A. Transport of FFA from fat depots to the tissues
- B. It takes part in one of reactions of FFA beta-oxidation
- C. FFA activation
- D. Activation of intracellular lipolysis
- E. Transport of FFA (free fatty acids) from cytosol to the mitochondria
Hint
Think about the cell compartments in which fat-derived acyl groups are first activated and in which they are finally oxidised.
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