Lipidomics of Yeast for Lipid Biosynthesis and Function

As a model system, yeast has many advantages for the study of lipid biology, which are as follows  

It should be recognized that although much of the fundamental metabolism of lipids in yeast is similar to that in mammalian cells, there exist some key differences between the yeast and mammalian cells. For example, 

These differences in fundamental lipid metabolism between the yeast and mammalian cells have implications for potential signaling mechanisms [38]. 

and Elo3 are 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthases embedded in the ER [8] and involved in catalyzing the four-step cycle that successively elongates precursor acyl CoA by two methylene groups. Ejsing et al. [19] performed a comparative 

5 Determining the Effects of Growth Conditions on Yeast Lipidomes 

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