Deoxyhypusine synthase; catalyzes formation of deoxyhypusine, the first step in hypusine biosynthesis; triggers posttranslational hypusination of translation elongation factor eIF-5A and regulates its intracellular levels; tetrameric; human homolog DHPS allows growth of yeast haploid dys1 null mutant after sporulation of heterozygous diploid [Source:SGD;Acc:S000001110]
Chromosome VIII: 232,133-233,296 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006934.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant) and 374 orthologues.