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.
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Acyl-CoA from cytosol to the mitochondrial matrix
[edit] Human forms of CPT
There are four different forms of CPT in humans:
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[edit] 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.
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