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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Quick Facts Choline/Carnitine o-acyltransferase, Identifiers ...

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

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• Palmitoylcarnitine
• Palmitoyl CoA

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