gspd-1

Caenorhabditis elegans

Predicted to enable glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity. Predicted to be involved in glucose metabolic process and pentose-phosphate shunt, oxidative branch. Predicted to be located in cytosol. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in several diseases, including Plasmodium falciparum malaria; diabetes mellitus (multiple); and favism. Is an ortholog of human G6PD (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase).