Sterol transport protein and functional homolog of human NPC2/He1; human NPC2 is a cholesterol-binding protein whose deficiency causes Niemann-Pick type C2 disease involving retention of cholesterol in lysosomes; yeast NPC2 can complement mutations in human NPC2 [Source:SGD;Acc:S000002204]
Chromosome IV: 371,240-371,761 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006938.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant) and 244 orthologues.