Phospholipid-binding hydrophilin; essential to overcome desiccation-rehydration process; expression is induced by osmotic stress; SIP18 has a paralog, GRE1, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000004787]
Chromosome XIII: 611,016-611,255 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006946.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant).