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), 345 orthologues and is a member of 1 Ensembl protein family.