A report by Alber and coworkers concluded that a specific CCR homolog was able to reduce crotonyl-coA to (2S)-ethyl malonyl-coA which was a favorable reaction.
The study by Alber and coworkers revealed that a particular CCR homologue enabled the conversion of crotonyl-CoA to (2S)-ethyl malonyl-CoA, a reaction that was considered beneficial in terms of metabolic pathways.