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), 598 orthologues and 1 paralogue.