Galactokinase; phosphorylates alpha-D-galactose to alpha-D-galactose-1-phosphate in the first step of galactose catabolism; expression regulated by Gal4p; human homolog GALK2 complements yeast null mutant; GAL1 has a paralog, GAL3, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000000224]
Chromosome II: 279,021-280,607 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006936.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 201 orthologues and 2 paralogues.