Ammonium permease of high capacity and low affinity; belongs to a ubiquitous family of cytoplasmic membrane proteins that transport only ammonium (NH4+); expression is under the nitrogen catabolite repression regulation ammonia permease; MEP3 has a paralog, MEP1, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000006342]
Chromosome XVI: 810,984-812,453 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006949.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 447 orthologues and 2 paralogues.