| Type: | Family | Name: | Autophagy-related protein 27 |
| Description: | Autophagy is a degradative transport pathway that delivers cytosolic proteins to the lysosome (vacuole) [] and is induced by starvation []. Cytosolic proteins appear inside the vacuole enclosed in autophagic vesicles. Autophagy significantly differs from other transport pathways by using double membrane layered transport intermediates, called autophagosomes [, ]. The breakdown of vesicular transport intermediates is a unique feature of autophagy []. Autophagy can also function in the elimination of invading bacteria and antigens [].There are more than 25 AuTophaGy-related (ATG) genes that are essential for autophagy, although it is still not known how the autophagosome is made. Atg9 is a potential membrane carrier to deliver lipids that are used to form the vesicle. Atg27 is another transmembrane protein, and is a cycling protein [].It acts as an effector of VPS34 phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate kinase signalling and regulates the cytoplasm to vacuole transport (Cvt) vesicle formation. It is also required for autophagy-dependent cycling of ATG9. | Short Name: | Autophagy-rel_prot_27 |
