The gene is truncated after exon 13. It contains a single FRT site and a single loxP site in the remaining exon 13-proximal segment of intron 13. Immunoblot analysis fails to detect the a3 subunit of vacuolar-type ATPase (V-ATPase), which is encoded by the endogenous gene, in liver lysates of homozygous mutant mice. (J:150327)