| Standard Name | CAT2 |
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| Systematic Name | YML042W |
| Alias | YCAT |
| Feature Type | ORF, Verified |
| Description | Carnitine acetyl-CoA transferase present in both mitochondria and peroxisomes, transfers activated acetyl groups to carnitine to form acetylcarnitine which can be shuttled across membranes (1, 2, 3) |
| Name Description | Carnitine AcetylTransferase 1 |
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Gene Ontology Annotations All CAT2 GO evidence and references
| View Computational GO annotations for CAT2 | |
| Molecular Function | |
| Manually curated | |
| Biological Process | |
| Manually curated | |
| Cellular Component | |
| Manually curated | |
| High-throughput |
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Mutant phenotypes All CAT2 Phenotype evidence and references
| Classical genetics | |
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| overexpression |
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| Large-scale survey | |
| null | |
| overexpression | |
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interactions All CAT2 Interaction evidence and references
| 34 total interaction(s) for 32 unique genes/features. | |
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Expression Summary
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Protein Information All CAT2 Protein evidence and references
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| Phosphorylation | PhosphoGRID | PhosphoPep Database |
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sequence information
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| Last Update | Coordinates: 1996-07-31 | Sequence: 1996-07-31 | ||||||||||||
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Analyze Sequence
| S288C only | |
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| S288C vs. other species | |
| S288C vs. other strains |
Resources
| External Links | All Associated Seq | E.C. | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | Search all NCBI (Entrez) | UniProtKB |
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| Primary SGDID | S000004506 |
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References cited on this page View Complete Literature Guide for CAT2
| 1) | Elgersma Y, et al. (1995) Peroxisomal and mitochondrial carnitine acetyltransferases of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are encoded by a single gene. EMBO J 14(14):3472-9 |
| 2) | van Roermund CW, et al. (1999) Molecular characterization of carnitine-dependent transport of acetyl-CoA from peroxisomes to mitochondria in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and identification of a plasma membrane carnitine transporter, Agp2p. EMBO J 18(21):5843-52 |
| 3) | Swiegers JH, et al. (2001) Carnitine-dependent metabolic activities in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: three carnitine acetyltransferases are essential in a carnitine-dependent strain. Yeast 18(7):585-95 |




