For 10 points, name this metabolic pathway that generates acetyl-CoA from fatty acids.
Mutations in proteins involved in this process in plants, such as AIM1, result in defects in wound healing due to errors in jasmonate synthesis. An enoyl isomerase and a 2,4-dienoyl reductase are required for this pathway's action upon unsaturated substrates. In this pathway's first, rate-limiting, step, substrates are shuttled across the mitochondrial membrane after being conjugated to carnitine. For very long substrates, this pathway begins in peroxisomes. It concludes with a Claisen cleavage reaction catalyzed by thiolase, though when oxaloacetate concentrations are low, this reaction is reversed and ketone bodies are generated. This pathway generates substrates for the citric acid cycle from larger molecules like palmitate. For 10 points, name this metabolic pathway that generates acetyl-CoA from fatty acids.
Mutations in proteins involved in this process in plants, such as AIM1, result in defects in wound healing due to errors in jasmonate synthesis.
beta-oxidation [accept fatty-acid oxidation before fatty acids are mentioned]