Vacuolar membrane protein; transits through the biosynthetic vacuolar protein sorting pathway, involved in sphingolipid metabolism; cells lacking Ncr1p exhibit high levels of long chain bases (LCB), similar to the accumulation of high amounts of lipids observed in patients with Neimann-Pick C, a disease caused by loss-of-function mutations in NPC1, the functional ortholog of Ncr1p [Source:SGD;Acc:S000005927]

Chromosome XVI: 544,631-548,143 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006949.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant) and 345 orthologues.

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