Mitochondrial branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) aminotransferase; preferentially involved in BCAA biosynthesis; homolog of murine ECA39; highly expressed during logarithmic phase and repressed during stationary phase; BAT1 has a paralog, BAT2, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000001251]
ECA39, TWT1
Chromosome VIII: 517,532-518,713 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006934.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 457 orthologues and 1 paralogue.