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.
R64-1-1:BK006936.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 91 orthologues and 2 paralogues.