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17:0 Coenzyme A or heptadecanoyl Coenzyme A (ammonium salt) has been used as an internal standard for long-chain acyl-CoA (LCACoA) analysis by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry. It has also been used as an internal standard to measure the percentage recovery of fatty acyl-CoAs by high performance liquid chromatography.

ChEBI: A long-chain fatty acyl-CoA that results from the formal condensation of the thiol group of coenzyme A with the carboxy group of heptadecanoic acid,

Coenzyme A functions as an acyl group carrier, acetyl-CoA. Heptadecanoyl Coenzyme A (C17-CoA), a long-chain (C-17) saturated fatty acyl-CoA, is used as an intermediate in lipid metabolism. It is a substrate of acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (EC 1.3.99.3) within the mitochondria and of carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.21) within the cytoplasm. Heptadecanoyl Coenzyme A is an inhibitor of general acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase (EC 1.3.99.3).