Predicted to enable mevalonate kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in cholesterol biosynthetic process and isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthetic process, mevalonate pathway. Located in cytosol. Expressed in head. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in lipid metabolism disorder; mevalonic aciduria; and porokeratosis. Is an ortholog of human MVK (mevalonate kinase).
This is a predicted enhancer region. These are intergenic TF-binding sites >500 bp from a gene start which overlap a TSS cluster, excluding regions that appear to be unannotated promoters based on having a signature of high H3K4me3/low H3K4me1. Nearest downstream gene=Y42G9A.4. Surounding gene organisation=tandem