Sporulation-specific activator of Chs3p (chitin synthase III); required for the synthesis of the chitosan layer of ascospores; transcriptionally induced at alkaline pH; SHC1 has a paralog, SKT5, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000000898]
Chromosome V: 351,698-353,236 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006939.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 366 orthologues and 3 paralogues.