Member of an oxysterol-binding protein family; this family has seven members in S. cerevisiae; family members have overlapping, redundant functions in sterol metabolism and collectively perform a function essential for viability; contains FFAT motif; interacts with ER anchor Scs2p at patches at the plasma membrane; regulated by sterol binding [Source:SGD;Acc:S000001115]
Chromosome VIII: 242,582-245,572 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006934.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 354 orthologues and 6 paralogues.