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Facts about Carnitine O-acetyltransferase.
Might be specific for short chain fatty acids. .
Human | |
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Gene Name: | CRAT |
Uniprot: | P43155 |
Entrez: | 1384 |
Belongs to: |
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carnitine/choline acetyltransferase family |
Carnitine acetylase; Carnitine acetyltransferaseCrAT; carnitine O-acetyltransferase; CAT; CAT1EC 2.3.1.7; EC 2.3.1
Mass (kDA):
70.858 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 9q34.11 |
Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (129094794..129110793, complement) |
Mostly in skeletal muscle, less in heart, liver and pancreas, only weakly detectable in brain, placenta, lung and kidney.
Endoplasmic reticulum. Peroxisome. Mitochondrion inner membrane; Peripheral membrane protein; Matrix side.; [Isoform 1]: Mitochondrion.; [Isoform 2]: Peroxisome.
PMID: 7945262 by Corti O., et al. Divergent sequences in the 5' region of cDNA suggest alternative splicing as a mechanism for the generation of carnitine acetyltransferases with different subcellular localizations.
PMID: 7829107 by Corti O., et al. Molecular cloning of cDNAs encoding human carnitine acetyltransferase and mapping of the corresponding gene to chromosome 9q34.1.