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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 65, Issue 6, Pages 982-990Publisher
BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-008-7576-6
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metabolite transport; carnitine acetyltransferase; carnitine octanoyltransferase; acyl-CoA thioesterase 5; acyl-CoA thioesterase 12; beta-oxidation; peroxisomes
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Peroxisomes metabolize a variety of lipids, acting as a chain-shortening system that produces acyl-CoAs of varying chain lengths, including acetyl-CoA and propionyl-CoA. It is, however, still largely unknown how beta-oxidation products exit peroxisomes and where they are further metabolized. Peroxisomes contain carnitine acetyltransferase (CRAT) and carnitine octanoyltransferase (CROT) that produce carnitine esters for transport out of peroxisomes, together with recently characterized acyl-CoA thioesterases (ACOTs) that produce free fatty acids. Here we have performed tissue expression profiling of the short- and medium-chain carnitine acyltransferases Crat, Crot and the short- and medium-chain thioesterases (Acot12) and (Acot5), and show that they are largely expressed in different tissues, suggesting that they do not compete for the same substrates but rather provide complementary systems for transport of metabolites across the peroxisomal membrane. These data also explain earlier observed tissue differences in peroxisomal production of acetyl-CoA/acetyl-carnitine/acetate and underscores the differences in peroxisome function in various organs.
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