Carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase
Choline/Carnitine o-acyltransferase | |||||||||
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![]() Structure of carnitine acetyltransferase.[1] | |||||||||
Identifiers | |||||||||
Symbol | Carn_acyltransf | ||||||||
Pfam | PF00755 | ||||||||
Pfam clan | CL0149 | ||||||||
InterPro | IPR000542 | ||||||||
PROSITE | PDOC00402 | ||||||||
SCOP2 | 1ndi / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
OPM superfamily | 83 | ||||||||
OPM protein | 2h3u | ||||||||
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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.
Molecules
Pathway
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
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