ATG4A

ATG4A
Available structures
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Identifiers
Aliases ATG4A, APG4A, AUTL2, autophagy related 4A cysteine peptidase
External IDs MGI: 2147903 HomoloGene: 70873 GeneCards: ATG4A
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

115201

666468

Ensembl

ENSG00000101844

ENSMUSG00000079418

UniProt

Q8WYN0

Q8C9S8

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_174875

RefSeq (protein)

NP_777364.3

Location (UCSC) Chr X: 108.09 – 108.15 Mb Chr X: 140.96 – 141.16 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
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Cysteine protease ATG4A is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ATG4A gene.[3][4][5]

Autophagy is the process by which endogenous proteins and damaged organelles are destroyed intracellularly. Autophagy is postulated to be essential for cell homeostasis and cell remodelling during differentiation, metamorphosis, non-apoptotic cell death, and aging. Reduced levels of autophagy have been described in some malignant tumors, and a role for autophagy in controlling the unregulated cell growth linked to cancer has been proposed. This gene encodes a member of the autophagin protein family. The encoded protein is also designated as a member of the C-54 family of cysteine proteases. Transcript variants that encode distinct isoforms have been identified.[5]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Marino G, Uria JA, Puente XS, Quesada V, Bordallo J, Lopez-Otin C (Feb 2003). "Human autophagins, a family of cysteine proteinases potentially implicated in cell degradation by autophagy". J Biol Chem. 278 (6): 3671–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.M208247200. PMID 12446702.
  4. Scherz-Shouval R, Sagiv Y, Shorer H, Elazar Z (Apr 2003). "The COOH terminus of GATE-16, an intra-Golgi transport modulator, is cleaved by the human cysteine protease HsApg4A". J Biol Chem. 278 (16): 14053–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.M212108200. PMID 12473658.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: ATG4A ATG4 autophagy related 4 homolog A (S. cerevisiae)".

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