8-oxo-dGTP diphosphatase; prevents spontaneous mutagenesis via sanitization of oxidized purine nucleoside triphosphates; can also act as peroxisomal pyrophosphatase with specificity for coenzyme A and CoA derivatives, may function to remove potentially toxic oxidized CoA disulfide from peroxisomes to maintain the capacity for beta-oxidation of fatty acids; nudix hydrolase family member; similar E. coli MutT and human, rat and mouse MTH1 [Source:SGD;Acc:S000004141]
Chromosome XII: 441,715-442,737 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006945.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 387 orthologues and is a member of 1 Ensembl protein family.