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Carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase

Choline/Carnitine o-acyltransferase
PDB 1ndi EBI.jpg
Structure of carnitine acetyltransferase.
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 transferase enzyme (EC 2.3.1.21) involved in the metabolism of palmitoylcarnitine into palmitoyl-CoA. A related transferase is carnitine acyltransferase.

Palmitoylcarnitine

Palmitoyl CoA

There are four different forms of CPT in humans:



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