Palmitoyl transferase involved in protein palmitoylation; acts as a negative regulator of pheromone response pathway; required for endocytosis of pheromone receptors; involved in cell shape control; contains ankyrin repeats; AKR1 has a paralog, AKR2, that arose from the whole genome duplication; any of several human homologs encoding DHHC-type zinc fingers (ZDHHC) can complement temperature sensitivity of yeast akr1 null mutant [Source:SGD;Acc:S000002672]

Chromosome IV: 996,029-998,323 reverse strand.

R64-1-1:BK006938.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 339 orthologues and 1 paralogue.

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