Protein of unknown function; has strong similarity to alanyl-tRNA synthases from Eubacteria; null mutant displays decreased translation rate and increased readthrough of premature stop codons; green fluorescent protein (GFP)-fusion protein localizes to the cytoplasm; YNL040W is not an essential gene [Source:SGD;Acc:S000004985]
Chromosome XIV: 553,380-554,750 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006947.3
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 202 orthologues and 1 paralogue.