Protein involved in regulation of sterol biosynthesis; specifically stabilizes Hmg2p, one of two HMG-CoA isoenzymes that catalyze the rate-limiting step in sterol biosynthesis; homolog of mammalian INSIG proteins; NSG2 has a paralog, NSG1, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000005100]

Chromosome XIV: 341,069-341,968 reverse strand.

R64-1-1:BK006947.3

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 200 orthologues, 1 paralogue and is a member of 1 Ensembl protein family.

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