Description
Glycerol dehydrogenase; involved in an alternative pathway for glycerol catabolism used under microaerobic conditions; also has mRNA binding activity; member of the aldo-keto reductase (AKR) family; human homolog AKR1B1 can complement yeast null mutant; protein abundance increases in response to DNA replication stress; GCY1 has a paralog, YPR1, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000005646]
Gene Synonyms
GCY
Location
Chromosome XV: 551,114-552,052 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006948.2
About this gene
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 3061 orthologues and 9 paralogues.
Transcripts
