Acyl carnitine esterase, production thereof and method for analyzing acyl carnitines.

摘要

An acylcarnitine esterase which has a substrate specificity to acyl-L-carnitines including short chain acyl-L-carnitines inclusive of acetyl-L-carnitine and propionyl-L-carnitine and which catalyzes the hydrolysis reaction of one mole of the acyl-L-carnitines with one mole of water to form one mole of the corresponding fatty acid and one mole of L-carnitine.