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; TKL2 has a paralog, TKL1, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000000321]

Chromosome II: 474,392-476,437 reverse strand.

R64-1-1:BK006936.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 378 orthologues and 2 paralogues.

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