Description
Product Characteristics:
Cysteine protease required for autophagy, which cleaves the C-terminal part of either MAP1LC3, GABARAPL2 or GABARAP, allowing the liberation of form I. A subpopulation of form I is subsequently converted to a smaller form (form II). Form II, with a revealed C-terminal glycine, is considered to be the phosphatidylethanolamine (PE)-conjugated form, and has the capacity for the binding to autophagosomes.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm, Nucleus
Synonyms: APG4 autophagy 4 homolog C S. cerevisiae, APG4 autophagy 4 homolog C, APG4 C, APG4-C, APG4C, ATG 4C, ATG4 autophagy related 4 homolog C S. cerevisiae, Atg4c, ATG4C_HUMAN, AUT S. cerevisiae like 1, cysteine endopeptidase, AUT like 1, cysteine endopeptidase S. cerevisiae, AUT like 1, cysteine endopeptidase, AUT like 3 cysteine endopeptidase, AUT-like 3 cysteine endopeptidase, AUTL1, AUTL3, Autophagin 3, Autophagin-3, Autophagy related cysteine endopeptidase 3, Autophagy related protein 4 homolog C, Autophagy-related cysteine endopeptidase 3, Autophagy-related protein 4 homolog C, Cysteine protease ATG4C, EC 3.4.22, FLJ14867, OTTHUMP00000010715.
Target Information: 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 the same protein, have been characterized. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]