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Human metabolism

Reactome's human metabolism drawn as one network. Each molecule has one home node; widely shared molecules also appear as dashed copies in other territories, linked from their details. .

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Outline: reactions mostly in the mitochondrion

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acetyl-CoA + carnitine => acetylcarnitine + CoASH

Ac-CoA + CAR → ACAR + CoA-SH

Reactome: R-HSA-390291
Compartment: peroxisomal matrix
Rhea: RHEA:21137

Inputs

Ac-CoACHEBI:57288, C23H34N7O17P3S, peroxisomal matrix
CARCHEBI:16347, C7H15NO3, peroxisomal matrix

Outputs

ACARCHEBI:57589, C9H17NO4, peroxisomal matrix
CoA-SHCHEBI:57287, C21H32N7O16P3S, peroxisomal matrix

Catalysed by

carnitine O-acetyltransferase activity of CRAT [peroxisomal matrix]EC 2.3.1.7; UniProt P43155

Literature

Purification and properties of carnitine acetyltransferase from human liver Eur J Biochem, 1990
Structural and mutational characterization of L-carnitine binding to human carnitine acetyltransferase J Struct Biol, 2004
Structure of human carnitine acetyltransferase. Molecular basis for fatty acyl transfer. J Biol Chem, 2003