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Brown fat-inducible thioesterase (BFIT). Brain acyl-CoA hydrolase (BACH). These enzymes deacylate long-chain fatty acids by hydrolyzing acyl-CoA thioesters to free fatty acids and CoA-SH. Eukaryotic members of this family are expressed in brain, testis, and brown adipose tissues. The archeal and eukaryotic members of this family have two tandem copies of the conserved hot dog fold, while most bacterial members have only one copy.
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