Sterol transporter that transfers sterols between membranes; may regulate and coordinate formation of contact sites between organelles; localizes to ER-mitochondrial contact sites in a Tom70p- and Tom71p-dependent manner; mitochondrial localization requires GRAM domain; also localizes to ER-vacuole contact sites, in a Vac8p-dependent manner; has GRAM and StART-like (VASt) domains; one of six StART-like domain-containing proteins in yeast; conserved across eukaryotes [Source:SGD;Acc:S000004062]

Chromosome XII: 278,862-280,943 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006945.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 269 orthologues, 3 paralogues and is a member of 2 Ensembl protein families.

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