Glycerol dehydrogenase; involved in an alternative pathway for glycerol catabolism used under microaerobic conditions; also has mRNA binding activity; member of the aldo-keto reductase (AKR) family; human homolog AKR1B1 can complement yeast null mutant; protein abundance increases in response to DNA replication stress; GCY1 has a paralog, YPR1, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000005646]

GCY

Chromosome XV: 551,114-552,052 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006948.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 619 orthologues and 13 paralogues.

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