Syntaxin-related protein required for vacuolar assembly. A member of t-SNARE superfamily, homologous to yest Vam3p. Localized in the vacuolar membranes. The protein has a heptad repeat structure (residues164
Computational Description
VACUOLAR MORPHOLOGY 3 (VAM3); FUNCTIONS IN: SNAP receptor activity; INVOLVED IN: in 7 processes; LOCATED IN: late endosome, trans-Golgi network transport vesicle, plant-type vacuole membrane, vacuole, plant-type vacuole; EXPRESSED IN: 24 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 15 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Target SNARE coiled-coil domain (InterPro:IPR000727), t-SNARE (InterPro:IPR010989), Syntaxin/epimorphin, conserved site (InterPro:IPR006012), Syntaxin, N-terminal (InterPro:IPR006011); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: syntaxin of plants 23 (TAIR:AT4G17730.2); Has 30201 Blast hits to 17322 proteins in 780 species: Archae - 12; Bacteria - 1396; Metazoa - 17338; Fungi - 3422; Plants - 5037; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 2996 (source: NCBI BLink).