Aspartyl protease; secreted into the periplasmic space of mating type a cell; helps cells find mating partners; cleaves and inactivates alpha factor allowing cells to recover from alpha-factor-induced cell cycle arrest [Source:SGD;Acc:S000001277]
SST1
Chromosome IX: 322,342-324,105 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006942.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 515 orthologues and 6 paralogues.