Catalytic subunit of 1,3-beta-D-glucan synthase; functionally redundant with alternate catalytic subunit Gsc2p; binds to regulatory subunit Rho1p; involved in cell wall synthesis and maintenance; localizes to sites of cell wall remodeling; FKS1 has a paralog, GSC2, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000004334]

CND1, CWH53, ETG1, GSC1, PBR1

Chromosome XII: 809,997-815,627 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006945.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 415 orthologues and 2 paralogues.

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