Ammonium permease; belongs to a ubiquitous family of cytoplasmic membrane proteins that transport only ammonium (NH4+); expression is under the nitrogen catabolite repression regulation; human homolog RHCG complements yeast null mutant; mutations in human homolog RHCG implicated in metabolic acidosis; MEP1 has a paralog, MEP3, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000003353]
AMT1
Chromosome VII: 731,449-732,927 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006941.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 447 orthologues and 2 paralogues.