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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>A new 1150 amino acids long open reading frame (ORF), coding for an essential protein of unknown function was found <jats:italic>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</jats:italic> by sequencing 3754 bp of geonomic DNA. The clone was isolated in a search for a fatty acid‐binding protein (FABP) and was localized on chromosome IX. The ORF bears no homology to FABP, but it shows weak similarity to <jats:italic>Plasmodium vivax</jats:italic> reticulocyte binding protein 1 and to aggregation‐specific adenylate cyclase from <jats:italic>Dictyostelium discoideum</jats:italic>. The new gene is constitutively transcribed regardless of the carbon source used. The nucleotide sequence reported in this paper has been deposited in GenBank (Accession Number U17918).</jats:p>