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