Transketolase; catalyzes conversion of xylulose-5-phosphate and ribose-5-phosphate to sedoheptulose-7-phosphate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate in the pentose phosphate pathway; needed for synthesis of aromatic amino acids; TKL1 has a paralog, TKL2, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000006278]

Chromosome XVI: 692,796-694,838 reverse strand.

R64-1-1:BK006949.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 383 orthologues and 2 paralogues.

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