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CATH Classification

Domain Context

CATH Clusters

Superfamily Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase-like domain
Functional Family Carnitine O-acetyltransferase

Enzyme Information

2.3.1.7
Carnitine O-acetyltransferase.
based on mapping to UniProt P43155
Acetyl-CoA + carnitine = CoA + O-acetylcarnitine.
-!- Also acts on propanoyl-CoA and butanoyl-CoA (cf. EC 2.3.1.21 and EC 2.3.1.137).

UniProtKB Entries (1)

P43155
CACP_HUMAN
Homo sapiens
Carnitine O-acetyltransferase

PDB Structure

PDB 1S5O
External Links
Method X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Organism Escherichia
Primary Citation
Structural and mutational characterization of l-carnitine binding to human carnitine acetyltransferase.
Govindasamy, L., Kukar, T., Lian, W., Pedersen, B., Gu, Y., Agbandje-McKenna, M., Jin, S., McKenna, R., Wu, D.
J.Struct.Biol.
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