Protein involved in telomeric and mating-type locus silencing; interacts with Sir2p and also interacts with Gal11p, which is a component of the RNA pol II mediator complex; ESC8 has a paralog, IOC3, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000005377]
Chromosome XV: 292,529-294,673 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006948.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 13 orthologues and 1 paralogue.