CAT2 BASIC INFORMATION
| 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)
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| Name Description | Carnitine AcetylTransferase 1 |
| GO Annotations | All CAT2 GO evidence and references |
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| View Computational GO annotations for CAT2 | |
| Molecular Function | |
| Manually curated | |
| Biological Process | |
| Manually curated | |
| Cellular Component | |
| Manually curated | |
| High-throughput |
| Pathways |
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| Mutant Phenotype | All CAT2 Phenotype details and references |
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| Large-scale survey | |
| null | |
| overexpression |
| Interactions | CAT2 All interactions details and references |
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| 19 total interaction(s) for 17 unique genes/features. | |
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| External Links | All Associated Seq | E.C. | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | UniProtKB |
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| Primary SGDID | S000004506 |
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION for CAT2
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 |




