Mating pheromone alpha-factor, made by alpha cells; interacts with mating type a cells to induce cell cycle arrest and other responses leading to mating; also encoded by MF(ALPHA)1, which is more highly expressed; binds copper(II) ions [Source:SGD;Acc:S000003057]
Chromosome VII: 344,791-345,153 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006941.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 34 orthologues and 1 paralogue.