Vacuolar aspartate and glutamate exporter; member of a family of seven genes (AVT1-7) related to vesicular GABA-glycine transporters; involved in compartmentalizing acidic amino acids in response to nitrogen starvation; AVT6 has a paralog, AVT5, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000000921]
Chromosome V: 399,496-400,842 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006939.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 1966 orthologues and 4 paralogues.