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Gene Gene information from NCBI Gene database.
Entrez ID 115201
Gene name Autophagy related 4A cysteine peptidase
Gene symbol ATG4A
Synonyms (NCBI Gene)
APG4AAUTL2HsAPG4A
Chromosome X
Chromosome location Xq22.3
Summary 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, a
miRNA miRNA information provided by mirtarbase database.
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miRTarBase ID miRNA Experiments Reference
MIRT022814 hsa-miR-124-3p Microarray 18668037
MIRT024785 hsa-miR-215-5p Microarray 19074876
MIRT024785 hsa-miR-215-5p Microarray 19074876
MIRT026607 hsa-miR-192-5p Microarray 19074876
MIRT036957 hsa-miR-877-3p CLASH 23622248
Gene ontology (GO) Gene Ontology (GO) annotations describing the biological processes, molecular functions, and cellular components associated with a gene.
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GO ID Ontology Definition Evidence Reference
GO:0000045 Process Autophagosome assembly IBA
GO:0000045 Process Autophagosome assembly IDA 21177865
GO:0000423 Process Mitophagy IBA
GO:0004197 Function Cysteine-type endopeptidase activity IBA
GO:0005515 Function Protein binding IPI 25416956, 32296183
Other IDs Other IDs provides unique identifiers for this gene in OMIM, HGNC, and Ensembl databases.
MIM HGNC e!Ensembl
300663 16489 ENSG00000101844
Protein Protein information from UniProt database.
UniProt ID Unique identifier for the protein in the UniProt database. Click to view detailed protein information.
Q8WYN0
Protein name Cysteine protease ATG4A (EC 3.4.22.-) (AUT-like 2 cysteine endopeptidase) (Autophagy-related cysteine endopeptidase 2) (Autophagin-2) (Autophagy-related protein 4 homolog A) (HsAPG4A) (hAPG4A)
Protein function Cysteine protease that plays a key role in autophagy by mediating both proteolytic activation and delipidation of ATG8 family proteins (PubMed:12473658, PubMed:15169837, PubMed:17347651, PubMed:21177865, PubMed:21245471, PubMed:22302004, PubMed:
PDB 2P82
Family and domains

Pfam

Accession ID Position in sequence Description Type
PF03416 Peptidase_C54 42 → 336 Peptidase family C54 Family
Sequence
Sequence length 398
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Pathways Pathway information has different metabolic/signaling pathways associated with genes.
KEGG Pathway Reactome Pathway
Autophagy - other Macroautophagy
Autophagy - animal