| Modification Notes |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a species of budding yeast, exists in haploid and diploid forms, both of which utilize ammonia and urea as nitrogen sources and are encoded by a genome containing approximately 5,800 functional genes. Gap 1 is a 602 amino acid permease that exists in Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a multi-pass membrane protein that belongs to the amino acid-polyamine-organocation (APC) superfamily. Functioning as a permease for a variety of amino acids, Gap 1 is responsible for amino acid import/uptake and may also participate in amino acid transport events that trigger the protein kinae A (PKA) pathway. The gene encoding Gap 1 maps to yeast chromosome XI. |