4,8-dimethylnonanoyl-CoA, which is converted to the corresponding acylcarnitine (presumably by peroxisomal carnitine octanoyltransferase), initially oxidize both phytanic acid and pristanic acid in peroxisomes, and exported to the mitochondrion.
ChEBI: 4,8-dimethylnonanoyl-CoA is a medium-chain fatty acyl-CoA that results from the formal condensation of the thiol group of coenzyme A with the carboxy group of 4,8-dimethylnonanoic acid. It is a medium-chain fatty acyl-CoA and a multi-methyl-branched fatty acyl-CoA. It is functionally related to a 4,8-dimethylnonanoic acid. It is a conjugate acid of a 4,8-dimethylnonanoyl-CoA(4-).
