Putative sterol transfer protein; localizes to puncta in the cortical ER; probable role in retrograde transport of sterols from the plasma membrane to the ER; one of six StART-like domain-containing proteins in yeast that may be involved in sterol transfer between intracellular membranes; conserved across eukaryotes; contains GRAM, StART-like (VASt) and two PH-like domains [Source:SGD;Acc:S000001198]
Chromosome VIII: 407,103-410,789 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006934.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 258 orthologues, 1 paralogue and is a member of 1 Ensembl protein family.