Carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase
| Choline/Carnitine o-acyltransferase | |||||||
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Structure of carnitine acetyltransferase. | |||||||
| 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.