Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.4.0)
Enables taste receptor binding activity. Involved in regulation of intracellular transport. Acts upstream of or within protein transport into membrane raft; sensory perception of bitter taste; and sensory perception of sweet taste. Located in endoplasmic reticulum membrane and plasma membrane. Is expressed in central nervous system; eye; ganglia; incisor; and testis. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in hereditary spastic paraplegia 72A. Orthologous to human REEP2 (receptor accessory protein 2).
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