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.

This transcript has 1 exon, is annotated with 18 domains and features, is associated with 28 variant alleles and maps to 46 oligo probes.

This transcript is a product of gene YBR117C Show transcript tableHide transcript table