Alpha-arrestin, ubiquitin ligase adaptor for Rsp5p; regulates starvation- and substrate-induced Ub-dependent endocytosis of select plasma membrane localized amino acid transporters; substrate of Rsp5p-mediated Lys63-polyubiquitination and Ubp2-mediated deubiquitination; promoter contains several Gcn4p binding sites required for induction in response to starvation via Gcn4p and the general amino acid control pathway; ECM21 has a paralog, CSR2, that arose from the whole genome duplication
