Protein Name ornithine decarboxylase SPE1
Organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C
Gene ID 853651
Gene Symbol

SPE1

UniProt P08432 (DCOR_YEAST)
Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 14
Total Number of Articles : 11
Description

ornithine decarboxylase SPE1

Gene Summary

Enables ornithine decarboxylase activity. Involved in pantothenate biosynthetic process and putrescine biosynthetic process. Located in cytoplasm. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in esophagus squamous cell carcinoma; hepatocellular carcinoma; and liver cirrhosis. Orthologous to several human genes including ODC1 (ornithine decarboxylase 1). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

synonyms
  • ornithine decarboxylase SPE1
  • YKL184W
  • ORD1
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Properties