| Type: | Family | Name: | Carnitinyl-CoA dehydratase |
| Description: | Many enterobacteria are able to convert carnitine, via crotonobetaine, to gamma-butyrobetaine in the presence of carbon and nitrogen sources under anaerobic conditions []. In Escherichia coli the enzymes involved in this pathway are encoded by the caiTABCDE operon []. The adjacent but divergent fixABCD operon also appears to be necessary for carnintine meatbolism []. The Fix proteins are homologous to proteins found in known electron transport pathways.The CaiD protein is a carnitinyl-CoA dehydratase enzyme which, together with carnitine-CoA transferase enzyme CaiB, is responsible for the transfomation of L-carnitine to crotonobetaine [] | Short Name: | Carnitinyl_CoA_dehydratase |
