acetyl CoA acetyltransferase-2 (ACAT2, cytosolic acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase, acetyl CoA transferase-like protein, ACTL)

Function

• catalyzes formation of acetoacetyl-CoA from acetyl-CoA

2 acetyl-CoA <--> CoA + acetoacetyl-CoA

Structure

• homotetramer
• belongs to the thiolase family

Compartment

cytoplasm

More general terms

• acetoacetyl CoA thiolase

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/100678
• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=39
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9BWD1.html