Cysteine desulfurase (Nfs1p) activator; essential for the formation of the persulfide intermediate at the desulfurase active site during pyridoxal phosphate-dependent desulfuration of cysteine; required for mitochondrial iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis; exclusive to eukaryotes, implicated as eukaryotic supplement to the bacterium-derived Fe-S cluster (ISC) assembly apparatus; involved in regulation of iron metabolism; member of the LYR protein family [Source:SGD;Acc:S000007237]

Chromosome V: 250,718-251,002 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006939.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant) and 40 orthologues.

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