Carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase

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Choline/Carnitine o-acyltransferase

Structure of carnitine acetyltransferase.[1]
Identifiers
Symbol Carn_acyltransf
Pfam PF00755
Pfam clan CL0149
InterPro IPR000542
PROSITE PDOC00402
SCOP 1ndi
SUPERFAMILY 1ndi
OPM superfamily 183
OPM protein 2h3u

Carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase (also called carnitine palmitoyltransferase) is a mitochondrial transferase enzyme (EC 2.3.1.21) involved in the metabolism of palmitoylcarnitine into palmitoyl-CoA. A related transferase is carnitine acyltransferase.

Molecules

Pathway

Acyl-CoA from cytosol to the mitochondrial matrix

Human forms of CPT

There are four different forms of CPT in humans:

See also

  • Fatty_acid_degradation#Transport_into_the_mitochondrial_matrix

References

  1. Jogl G, Tong L (January 2003). "Crystal structure of carnitine acetyltransferase and implications for the catalytic mechanism and fatty acid transport". Cell 112 (1): 113–22. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(02)01228-X. PMID 12526798. 

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