Regulates the traffic and/or budding of caveolae . Plays a role in caveola formation in a tissue-specific manner. Required for the formation of caveolae in smooth muscle but not in the lung and heart endothelial cells. Regulates the equilibrium between cell surface-associated and cell surface-dissociated caveolae by promoting the rapid release of caveolae from the cell surface. Plays a role in the regulation of the circadian clock. Modulates the period length and phase of circadian gene expression and also regulates expression and interaction of the core clock components PER1/2 and CRY1/2 (By similarity).
Cytoplasm . Membrane, caveola . Cytoplasm, cytosol . Localizes in the caveolae in a caveolin-dependent manner. .
Skeletal muscle, liver, stomach, lung, kidney and heart (at protein level). Strongly expressed in mammary and epithelial cells.