Alkaline dihydroceramidase, involved in sphingolipid metabolism; preferentially hydrolyzes dihydroceramide to a free fatty acid and dihydrosphingosine; has a minor reverse activity; YDC1 has a paralog, YPC1, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000006008]

Chromosome XVI: 383,455-384,408 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006949.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 303 orthologues, 1 paralogue and is a member of 2 Ensembl protein families.

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