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ATG4C is involved in autophagy, 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. 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. Highly expressed in skeletal muscle, heart, liver and testis.
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Protein Aliases: APG4 (ATG4) autophagy-related homolog C; APG4 autophagy 4 homolog C; ATG4 autophagy related 4 homolog C; AUT-like 1, cysteine endopeptidase; AUT-like 3 cysteine endopeptidase; autophagin 3; Autophagin-3; autophagy related 4C, cysteine peptidase; autophagy-related 4C; Autophagy-related cysteine endopeptidase 3; Autophagy-related protein 4 homolog C; cysteine peptidase; Cysteine protease ATG4C; cysteine protease involved in autophagy; FLJ14867; HsAPG4C
Gene Aliases: APG4-C; APG4C; ATG4C; Atg4cl; AUTL1; AUTL3
UniProt ID: (Human) Q96DT6, (Mouse) Q811C2
Entrez Gene ID: (Human) 84938, (Mouse) 242557, (Rat) 313391
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