Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables phosphomevalonate kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in cholesterol biosynthetic process and isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthetic process, mevalonate pathway. Predicted to act upstream of or within cholesterol metabolic process; phosphorylation; and steroid biosynthetic process. Predicted to be located in cytosol. Is expressed in early conceptus. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in porokeratosis. Orthologous to human PMVK (phosphomevalonate kinase).