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RTG3 | Retrograde regulation protein 3; bHLH/Zip transcription factor for retrograde (RTG) and TOR pathways; forms a complex with another bHLH/Zip protein, Rtg1p, to activate the pathways; target of Hog1p. (486 aa) | ||||
FUN14 | Protein FUN14; Integral mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) protein; dosage suppressor of an MDM10 null that reduces ERMES-related phenotypes, such as alterations in mitochondrial morphology, protein complex assembly, and lipid profile; dosage suppressor of MDM12, MDM34, and MMM1 null mutant growth defects; novel mechanism of MOM import involving Tom70p, the TOM complex, and the TIM23 complex, requiring mitochondrial membrane potential and processing by the IMP complex for correct biogenesis; Belongs to the FUN14 family. (198 aa) | ||||
PEP1 | Vacuolar protein sorting/targeting protein VPS10; Type I transmembrane sorting receptor for multiple vacuolar hydrolases; cycles between the late-Golgi and prevacuolar endosome-like compartments; Belongs to the VPS10-related sortilin family. (1579 aa) | ||||
ATG8 | Autophagy-related protein 8; Component of autophagosomes and Cvt vesicles; regulator of Atg1p, targets it to autophagosomes; binds the Atg1p-Atg13p complex, triggering its vacuolar degradation; unique ubiquitin-like protein whose conjugation target is lipid phosphatidylethanolamine (PE); Atg8p-PE is anchored to membranes, is involved in phagophore expansion, and may mediate membrane fusion during autophagosome formation; deconjugation of Atg8p-PE is required for efficient autophagosome biogenesis. (117 aa) | ||||
ATG12 | Ubiquitin-like protein ATG12; Ubiquitin-like modifier involved in autophagy and the Cvt pathway; conserved; conjugated to Atg5p to form a complex involved in Atg8p lipidation; Atg5p-Atg12p conjugate enhances E2 activity of Atg3p by rearranging its catalytic site, also forms a complex with Atg16p; the Atg5-Atg12/Atg16 complex binds to membranes and is essential for autophagosome formation. (186 aa) | ||||
PTC6 | [Pyruvate dehydrogenase [acetyl-transferring]]-phosphatase 2, mitochondrial; Mitochondrial type 2C protein phosphatase (PP2C); has similarity to mammalian PP1Ks; involved in mitophagy; null mutant is sensitive to rapamycin and has decreased phosphorylation of the Pda1 subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase. (442 aa) | ||||
ATG20 | Autophagy-related protein 20; Sorting nexin family member; required for the cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway and for endosomal sorting; has a Phox homology domain that binds phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate; interacts with Snx4p; potential Cdc28p substrate. (640 aa) | ||||
ATG9 | Autophagy-related protein 9; Transmembrane protein involved in forming Cvt and autophagic vesicles; cycles between the phagophore assembly site (PAS) and other cytosolic punctate structures, not found in autophagosomes; may be involved in membrane delivery to the PAS; Belongs to the ATG9 family. (997 aa) | ||||
ATG31 | Autophagy-related protein 31; Autophagy-specific protein required for autophagosome formation; forms a complex with Atg17p and Atg29p that localizes other proteins to the pre-autophagosomal structure; constitutively phosphorylated, and phosphorylation of residue S174 is required for function; high-copy suppressor of CIK1 deletion. (196 aa) | ||||
GET2 | Golgi to ER traffic protein 2; Subunit of the GET complex; involved in insertion of proteins into the ER membrane; required for the retrieval of HDEL proteins from the Golgi to the ER in an ERD2 dependent fashion and for meiotic nuclear division; Belongs to the GET2 family. (285 aa) | ||||
ATG18 | Autophagy-related protein 18; Phosphoinositide binding protein; required for vesicle formation in autophagy and the cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway; binds both phosphatidylinositol (3,5)-bisphosphate and phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate; WD-40 repeat protein; relocalizes from vacuole to cytoplasm upon DNA replication stress; has 4 mammalian homologs WIPI1, WIPI2, WIPI3 and WIPI4/WDR45; mutations in human WDR45 cause static encephalopathy of childhood with neurodegeneration in adulthood. (500 aa) | ||||
CDC14 | Tyrosine-protein phosphatase CDC14; Protein phosphatase required for mitotic exit; required for rDNA segregation, cytokinesis, meiosis I spindle disassembly, environmental stress response; held in nucleolus by Cdc55p in early meiosis, liberated by FEAR and Mitotic Exit Network in anaphase, enabling it to effect a decrease in CDK/B-cyclin activity and mitotic exit; sequestered in metaphase II, released upon entry into anaphase II; human homolog CDC14A can complement thermosensitivity of yeast cdc14-1 mutant. (551 aa) | ||||
GET1 | Golgi to ER traffic protein 1; Subunit of the GET complex; involved in insertion of proteins into the ER membrane; required for the retrieval of HDEL proteins from the Golgi to the ER in an ERD2 dependent fashion and for normal mitochondrial morphology and inheritance. (235 aa) | ||||
ATG1 | Serine/threonine-protein kinase ATG1; Protein serine/threonine kinase; required for vesicle formation in autophagy and the cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway; structurally required for phagophore assembly site formation; during autophagy forms a complex with Atg13p and Atg17p; essential for cell cycle progression from G2/M to G1 under nitrogen starvation. (897 aa) | ||||
SCM4 | Protein SCM4; Mitochondrial outer membrane protein of unknown function; predicted to have 4 transmembrane segments; import is mediated by Tom70p and Mim1p; interacts genetically with a cdc4 mutation; SCM4 has a paralog, ATG33, that arose from the whole genome duplication. (187 aa) | ||||
HSV2 | SVP1-like protein 2; Phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate-binding protein; plays a role in micronucleophagy; belongs to the PROPPIN family of proteins; predicted to fold as a seven-bladed beta-propeller; displays punctate cytoplasmic localization; Belongs to the WD repeat SVP1 family. (448 aa) | ||||
ATG7 | Ubiquitin-like modifier-activating enzyme ATG7; Autophagy-related protein and dual specificity member of the E1 family; mediates the attachment of Atg12p to Atg5p and Atg8p to phosphatidylethanolamine which are required steps in autophagosome formation; E1 enzymes are also known as ubiquitin-activating enzymes; involved in methionine restriction extension of chronological lifespan in an autophagy-dependent manner; Belongs to the ATG7 family. (630 aa) | ||||
FIS1 | Protein involved in mitochondrial fission and peroxisome abundance; may have a distinct role in tethering protein aggregates to mitochondria in order to retain them in the mother cell; required for localization of Dnm1p and Mdv1p during mitochondrial division; mediates ethanol-induced apoptosis and ethanol-induced mitochondrial fragmentation; Belongs to the FIS1 family. (155 aa) | ||||
ATG32 | Autophagy-related protein 32; Mitochondrial outer membrane protein required to initiate mitophagy; recruits the autophagy adaptor protein Atg11p and the ubiquitin-like protein Atg8p to the mitochondrial surface to initiate mitophagy, the selective vacuolar degradation of mitochondria in response to starvation; can promote pexophagy when placed ectopically in the peroxisomal membrane; regulates mitophagy and ethanol production during alcoholic fermentation. (529 aa) | ||||
YIL165C | Putative protein of unknown function; mutant exhibits mitophagy defects; in closely related species and other S. cerevisiae strain backgrounds YIL165C and adjacent ORF, YIL164C, likely constitute a single ORF encoding a nitrilase gene; Belongs to the carbon-nitrogen hydrolase superfamily. Nitrilase family. (119 aa) | ||||
SNX4 | Sorting nexin; involved in retrieval of late-Golgi SNAREs from post-Golgi endosomes to the trans-Golgi network and in cytoplasm to vacuole transport; contains a PX phosphoinositide-binding domain; forms complexes with Snx41p and with Atg20p. (423 aa) | ||||
ATG36 | Autophagy-related protein 36; Pex3p interacting protein, required for pexophagy; interacts with Atg8p and Atg11p; mRNA is weakly cell cycle regulated, peaking in G2 phase; YJL185C is a non-essential gene. (293 aa) | ||||
AIM26 | Protein of unknown function; null mutant is viable and displays elevated frequency of mitochondrial genome loss; null mutation confers sensitivity to tunicamycin and DTT. (118 aa) | ||||
UTH1 | Probable secreted beta-glucosidase UTH1; Mitochondrial inner membrane protein; role in mitophagy is disputed; implicated in cell wall biogenesis, the oxidative stress response, life span during starvation, and cell death; SUN family member; UTH1 has a paralog, NCA3, that arose from the whole genome duplication. (365 aa) | ||||
LMO1 | ELMO family protein LMO1; Homolog of mammalian ELMO (Engulfment and celL MOtility); upstream component for regulation through the small GTPase Rho5p; may form a complex with Dck1p that acts as a GEF for Rho5p; cytoplasmic protein that relocates to mitochondria under oxidative stress; implicated in mitophagy; not an essential protein. (665 aa) | ||||
ATG10 | Ubiquitin-like-conjugating enzyme ATG10; Conserved E2-like conjugating enzyme; mediates formation of the Atg12p-Atg5p conjugate, which is a critical step in autophagy; Belongs to the ATG10 family. (167 aa) | ||||
STT4 | Phosphatidylinositol-4-kinase; functions in the Pkc1p protein kinase pathway; required for normal vacuole morphology, cell wall integrity, and actin cytoskeleton organization; Belongs to the PI3/PI4-kinase family. Type III PI4K subfamily. (1900 aa) | ||||
ATG33 | Autophagy-related protein 33; Mitochondrial mitophagy-specific protein; required primarily for mitophagy induced at post-log phase; not required for other types of selective autophagy or macroautophagy; conserved within fungi, but not in higher eukaryotes; ATG33 has a paralog, SCM4, that arose from the whole genome duplication. (197 aa) | ||||
DCK1 | DOCK-like protein 1; Dock family protein (Dedicator Of CytoKinesis), homolog of human DOCK1; upstream component for regulation through the small GTPase Rho5p; may form a complex with Lmo1p that acts as a GEF for Rho5p; interacts with Ino4p; cytoplasmic protein that relocates to mitochondria under oxidative stress; implicated in mitophagy; not an essential protein; DOCK proteins act as guanine nucleotide exchange factors. (1932 aa) | ||||
ATG17 | Autophagy-related protein 17; Scaffold protein responsible for phagophore assembly site organization; regulatory subunit of an autophagy-specific complex that includes Atg1p and Atg13p; stimulates Atg1p kinase activity; human ortholog RB1CC1/FIP200 interacts with p53, which inhibits autophagy in human cells. (417 aa) | ||||
ATG16 | Conserved protein involved in autophagy; interacts with Atg12p-Atg5p conjugates to form Atg12p-Atg5p-Atg16p multimers, which binds to membranes and localizes to the pre-autophagosomal structure and are required for autophagy; relocalizes from nucleus to cytoplasmic foci upon DNA replication stress. (150 aa) | ||||
ATG4 | Conserved cysteine protease required for autophagy; cleaves Atg8p to a form required for autophagosome and Cvt vesicle generation. (494 aa) | ||||
ATG2 | Autophagy-related protein 2; Peripheral membrane protein required for autophagic vesicle formation; also required for vesicle formation during pexophagy and the cytoplasm-to-vaucole targeting (Cvt) pathway; involved in Atg9p cycling between the phagophore assembly site and mitochondria; contains an APT1 domain that binds phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate; essential for cell cycle progression from G2/M to G1 under nitrogen starvation; forms cytoplasmic foci upon DNA replication stress. (1592 aa) | ||||
ATG3 | Autophagy-related protein 3; E2-like enzyme; involved in autophagy and cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway; plays a role in formation of Atg8p-phosphatidylethanolamine conjugates, which are involved in membrane dynamics during autophagy and Cvt; interaction with Atg8p regulated by acetylation by NuA4 histone acetyltransferase Esa1p while attenuation of Atg3 acetylation is mediated by histone deacetylase Rpd3p; Atg12p-Atg5p conjugate enhances E2 activity of Atg3p by rearranging its catalytic site. (310 aa) | ||||
YOR019W | Uncharacterized protein YOR019W; Protein of unknown function; may interact with ribosomes, based on co-purification experiments; YOR019W has a paralog, JIP4, that arose from the whole genome duplication. (730 aa) | ||||
WHI2 | Growth regulation protein; Protein required for full activation of the general stress response; required with binding partner Psr1p, possibly through Msn2p dephosphorylation; regulates growth during the diauxic shift; negative regulator of G1 cyclin expression; SWAT-GFP, seamless-GFP and mCherry fusion proteins localize to the cell periphery. (486 aa) | ||||
ATG21 | Autophagy-related protein 21; Phosphoinositide binding protein; required for vesicle formation in the cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway; binds both phosphatidylinositol (3,5)-bisphosphate and phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate; WD-40 repeat protein. (496 aa) | ||||
ATG5 | Autophagy protein 5; Conserved protein involved in autophagy and the Cvt pathway; undergoes conjugation with Atg12p to form a complex involved in Atg8p lipidation; Atg5p-Atg12p conjugate enhances E2 activity of Atg3 by rearranging its catalytic site, also forms a complex with Atg16p; the Atg5-Atg12/Atg16 complex binds to membranes and is essential for autophagosome formation; also involved in methionine restriction extension of chronological lifespan in an autophagy-dependent manner. (294 aa) | ||||
ATG29 | Autophagy-related protein 29; Autophagy-specific protein; required for recruiting other ATG proteins to the pre-autophagosomal structure (PAS); interacts with Atg17p and localizas to the PAS in a manner interdependent with Atg17p and Cis1p; not conserved; relocalizes from nucleus to cytoplasmic foci upon DNA replication stress; Belongs to the ATG29 family. (213 aa) | ||||
ATG41 | Autophagy-related protein 41; Protein of unknown function; required for selective and nonselective autophagy, and mitophagy; regulates the rate of autophagosome formation; interacts with Atg9p, and has a similar peri-mitochondrial localization; elevated Gcn4p-dependent expression under autophagy-inducing conditions; mobilized into polysomes upon a shift from a fermentable to nonfermentable carbon source; potential Cdc28p substrate; ATG41 has a paralog, ICY1, that arose from the whole genome duplication. (136 aa) | ||||
ATG11 | Autophagy-related protein 11; Adapter protein for pexophagy and the Cvt targeting pathway; directs receptor-bound cargo to the phagophore assembly site (PAS) for packaging into vesicles; required for recruiting other proteins to the PAS; recruits Dnm1p to facilitate fission of mitochondria that are destined for removal by mitophagy; Belongs to the ATG11 family. (1178 aa) | ||||
ATG13 | Autophagy-related protein 13; Regulatory subunit of the Atg1p signaling complex; stimulates Atg1p kinase activity; required for vesicle formation during autophagy and the cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway; contains a HORMA domain required for autophagy and for recruitment of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase complex subunit Atg14p to the pre-autophagosomal structure; Belongs to the ATG13 family. Fungi subfamily. (738 aa) |