Carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase

Carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase (also called carnitine palmitoyltransferase) is a mitochondrial transferase enzyme involved in the metabolism of palmitoylcarnitine into palmitoyl-CoA. A related transferase is carnitine acyltransferase.

Human forms
There are four different forms of CPT in humans:


 * CPT1A – associated with Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I deficiency
 * CPT1B
 * CPT1C
 * CPT2 – associated with carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency