Secondary mitochondrial inner membrane glycine transporter; required with HEM25 for the transport of glycine into mitochondria for the initiation of heme biosynthesis; proposed role in oleate metabolism and glutamate biosynthesis; member of the mitochondrial carrier (MCF) family; localizes to the vacuole in response to H2O2; YMC1 has a paralog, YMC2, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000006262]

Chromosome XVI: 673,751-674,674 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006949.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 56 orthologues and 34 paralogues.

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