Required for vacuolar assembly. Provides the t-SNARE function in a late step of the vacuolar assembly. Required for homotypic vacuole membrane fusion, autophagy and fusion of biosynthetic transport vesicles with the vacuole. Required for the delivery of alpha-factor receptor-ligand complexes to the vacuole. Associates with VAM7. Present with 414 molecules/cell in log phase SD medium. Belongs to the syntaxin family.