AmiGO 2: Term Details for "carnitine shuttle" (GO:0006853)

Accession: GO:0006853
Name: carnitine shuttle
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The transfer of acyl groups to and from acyl-CoA molecules to form O-acylcarnitine, which can exchange across the mitochondrial inner membrane with unacylated carnitine. Source: ISBN:0198547684
Comment: See also the cellular component term 'mitochondrial inner membrane ; GO:0005743'.
History: See term history for GO:0006853 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
carnitine shuttle	is_a	intracellular lipid transport (GO:0032365)
carnitine shuttle	is_a	mitochondrial transmembrane transport (GO:1990542)
carnitine shuttle	is_a	long-chain fatty acid transport (GO:0015909)
carnitine shuttle	is_a	fatty acid transmembrane transport (GO:1902001)

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