Protein involved in SRP-independent targeting of substrates to the ER; component of an alternative ER targeting pathway that has partial functional redundancy with the GET pathway; preference for substrates with downstream transmembrane domains; interacts with Env10p/Snd2p and Pho88p/Snd3p; can compensate for loss of SRP; co-purifies with ribosomes; GFP-fusion protein localizes to the cytoplasm