5-phospho-ribosyl-1(alpha)-pyrophosphate synthetase; synthesizes PRPP, which is required for nucleotide, histidine, and tryptophan biosynthesis; one of five related enzymes, which are active as heteromultimeric complexes; forms cytoplasmic foci upon DNA replication stress [Source:SGD;Acc:S000005422]
Chromosome XV: 212,244-213,734 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006948.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 277 orthologues and 4 paralogues.