Choline kinase; catalyzes the first step in phosphatidylcholine synthesis via the CDP-choline (Kennedy pathway); exhibits some ethanolamine kinase activity contributing to phosphatidylethanolamine synthesis via the CDP-ethanolamine pathway; CKI1 has a paralog, EKI1, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000004123]
Chromosome XII: 408,445-410,193 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006945.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 336 orthologues, 1 paralogue and is a member of 1 Ensembl protein family.