It is widely recognized the beneficial effects of unsaturated fatty acids (UFA) in human health, which has been also emphasized by the World Health Organization (Burlingame et al., 2009;Vannice & Rasmussen, 2014). Thus, enhancing the UFA profile in animal-derived products improves the nutritional quality of them (Brooks et al., 2011).In terms of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), n-3, and n-6 are the most common, being linoleic (18:2n-6) and α-linolenic (18:3n-3) acids the most abundant. However, humans are unable to synthesize them and, therefore, they are considered essential dietary fatty acids (FA).Lipogenesis is nutritionally controlled at the transcriptional level by a common family of transcription factors designated sterol regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs;. These transcription factors have an important role in controlling around 30 genes affecting the synthesis of FAs, triacylglycerols, and glycerophospholipids (Shimomura et al., 1997;Zimin et al., 2009), and are considered also master regulators of cholesterogenesis (Eberlé et al., 2004).