Acyl-coenzymeA:ethanol O-acyltransferase; responsible for the major part of medium-chain fatty acid ethyl ester biosynthesis during fermentation; possesses short-chain esterase activity; may be involved in lipid metabolism and detoxification; EEB1 has a paralog, EHT1, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000006016]
Chromosome XVI: 368,071-369,441 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006949.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 895 orthologues and 2 paralogues.