Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Enables acetyl-CoA C-acetyltransferase activity. Predicted to be involved in carboxylic acid catabolic process; ketone body catabolic process; and purine nucleoside bisphosphate metabolic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within fatty acid metabolic process. Located in mitochondrial inner membrane. Is expressed in several structures, including brain; future brain; heart; liver; and metanephros. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in beta-ketothiolase deficiency and carbohydrate metabolic disorder. Orthologous to human ACAT1 (acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase 1).