Stress-induced Rab family GTPase; required for vacuolar protein sorting and endocytosis; involved in ionic stress tolerance; similar to Vps21p and Ypt52p; functional homolog of Vps21p; mammalian Rab5 homolog; YPT53 has a paralog, VPS21, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000005037]
Chromosome XIV: 449,868-450,530 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006947.3
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 357 orthologues, 12 paralogues and is a member of 1 Ensembl protein family.