Adapter protein for pexophagy and the Cvt targeting pathway; directs receptor-bound cargo to the phagophore assembly site (PAS) for packaging into vesicles; required for recruiting other proteins to the PAS; recruits Dnm1p to facilitate fission of mitochondria that are destined for removal by mitophagy [Source:SGD;Acc:S000006253]
CVT9
Chromosome XVI: 661,137-664,673 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006949.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant) and 17 orthologues.