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Most cancer cells displayed moderate cytoplasmic immunoreactivity. Several cases of ovarian cancers as well as a few cases of colorectal, breast and pancreatic cancers displayed strong immunoreactivity. Several cases of gliomas, lymphomas, prostate and renal cancers were weakly stained or negative.
The protein encoded by this gene, a member of the carnitine/choline acetyltransferase family, is the rate-controlling enzyme of the long-chain fatty acid beta-oxidation pathway in muscle mitochondria. This enzyme is required for the net transport of long-chain fatty acyl-CoAs from the cytoplasm into the mitochondria. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene, and read-through transcripts are expressed from the upstream locus that include exons from this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2009]