Description
Catalytic subunit of 1,3-beta-D-glucan synthase; functionally redundant with alternate catalytic subunit Gsc2p; binds to regulatory subunit Rho1p; involved in cell wall synthesis and maintenance; localizes to sites of cell wall remodeling; FKS1 has a paralog, GSC2, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000004334]
Gene Synonyms
CND1, CWH53, ETG1, GSC1, PBR1
Location
Chromosome XII: 809,997-815,627 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006945.2
About this gene
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 202 orthologues and 1 paralogue.
Transcripts
