High-affinity copper transporter of plasma membrane; mediates nearly all copper uptake under low copper conditions; transcriptionally induced at low copper levels and degraded at high copper levels; protein increases in abundance and relocalizes from nucleus to plasma membrane upon DNA replication stress; human homolog SLC31A1 can complement a yeast ctr1 ctr3 double deletion [Source:SGD;Acc:S000006328]

Chromosome XVI: 786,208-787,428 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006949.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 61 orthologues and is a member of 2 Ensembl protein families.

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