ATG4B

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 remodeling 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. Alternate transcriptional splice variants, encoding different isoforms, have been characterized. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Description

Autophagy related 4B cysteine peptidase

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Enzymes
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)
Transporters

Chromosome

2 (241637213 - 241673857)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000168397  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Atg4b: ENSMUSG00000026280

UniProt

Q9Y4P1

neXtProt

NX_Q9Y4P1

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure