Carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase

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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.

Choline/Carnitine o-acyltransferase

Structure of carnitine acetyltransferase.^[1]

Identifiers

Symbol

Carn_acyltransf

Pfam clan

1ndi / SCOPe / SUPFAM

OPM superfamily

Available protein structures:
Pfam	structures / ECOD
PDB	RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsum	structure summary

Molecules

Pathway

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Human forms

There are four different forms of CPT in humans:

CPT1A – associated with Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I deficiency
CPT1B
CPT1C
CPT2 – associated with carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency

See also

Fatty acid degradation § Transport into the mitochondrial matrix

References

^ 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.

External links

PDOC00402 – Acyltransferases ChoActase / COT / CPT family in PROSITE
Choline/Carnitine o-acyltransferase family^{[permanent dead link]} in Pfam
UMich Orientation of Proteins in Membranes protein/pdbid-2h4t
Carnitine+O-Palmitoyltransferase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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