Carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase

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Choline/Carnitine o-acyltransferase
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
Available protein structures: Pfam   structures / ECOD   PDB RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj PDBsum structure summary

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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  Palmitoylcarnitine
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  Palmitoyl CoA

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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

• Fatty acid degradation § Transport into the mitochondrial matrix

• PDOC00402 – Acyltransferases ChoActase / COT / CPT family in PROSITE
• Choline/Carnitine o-acyltransferase family^{[permanent dead link]} in Pfam
• UMich Orientation of Proteins in Membranes protein/pdbid-2h4t
• Carnitine+O-Palmitoyltransferase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)