Protein involved in cystine transport; localizes to the vacuole, plasma membrane and endosome; similarity to human cystinosin, a H(+)-driven transporter involved in L-cystine export from lysosomes and implicated in the disease cystinosis; contains seven transmembrane domains; mutation is functionally complemented by human CTNS [Source:SGD;Acc:S000000671]
Chromosome III: 248,033-248,815 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006937.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant) and 280 orthologues.