Plasma membrane arginine permease; requires phosphatidyl ethanolamine (PE) for localization, exclusively associated with lipid rafts; mutation confers canavanine resistance; CAN1 has a paralog, ALP1, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000000789]
Chromosome V: 31,694-33,466 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006939.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 278 orthologues and 23 paralogues.