Enables hydrolase activity, acting on carbon-nitrogen (but not peptide) bonds, in cyclic amides. Involved in pyrimidine nucleobase catabolic process. Located in nucleus. Expressed in hyp7 syncytium. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Ritscher-Schinzel syndrome; dihydropyrimidinase deficiency; and purine-pyrimidine metabolic disorder. Is an ortholog of human DPYS (dihydropyrimidinase).
The authors induced and PCR-screened a deletion allele of C47E12.8 (nt 9464-11066 of cosmid C47E12). The sequence change of this allele is that it removes part or all of exons 2-5 (and thus is presumably an amorphic or strongly hypomorphic allele). email43
Map position created from combination of previous interpolated map position (based on known location of sequence) and allele information. Therefore this is not a genetic map position based on recombination frequencies or genetic experiments. This was done on advice of the CGC.