ATG4B

autophagy related 4B cysteine peptidase

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, 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 different isoforms, have been characterized. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Known Variants35 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs12371254372:242,590,449G/A—uncertain significance
rs10339029392:242,590,473C/G—uncertain significance
rs3735588202:242,590,477G/C—uncertain significance
rs3692440482:242,590,490G/A—uncertain significance
rs1114309052:242,590,531C/T—benign
rs7679528972:242,590,687G/A—uncertain significance
rs12974517702:242,590,690A/G—uncertain significance
rs8789858522:242,592,927G/T—uncertain significance
rs3737424052:242,592,972G/A—uncertain significance
rs9102244712:242,593,010C/T—uncertain significance
rs14642896112:242,593,016C/A—uncertain significance
rs10099617992:242,593,996A/G—uncertain significance
rs3750639362:242,594,007C/G—uncertain significance
rs2018015842:242,594,015A/G—uncertain significance
rs5519588552:242,597,348G/A——
rs25496891512:242,598,572A/G—uncertain significance
rs7758270182:242,598,588T/G—uncertain significance
rs5352957142:242,606,052C/T—likely benign
rs25496961932:242,606,084C/T—uncertain significance
rs3683011512:242,606,104T/G—uncertain significance
rs1995563452:242,606,119G/A—uncertain significance
rs10542457762:242,606,122C/T—uncertain significance
rs13844971292:242,606,128T/A—uncertain significance
rs7518074672:242,606,144C/G—uncertain significance
rs7801215582:242,606,162A/T—uncertain significance
rs7491918522:242,606,168C/T—uncertain significance
rs20687904972:242,606,204T/G—uncertain significance
rs3710054402:242,606,230G/A—uncertain significance
rs14516978922:242,608,041C/T—uncertain significance
rs7577785782:242,608,054C/T—uncertain significance
rs7719928902:242,608,075C/T—uncertain significance
rs14023827492:242,608,095G/A—uncertain significance
rs1382745802:242,610,172A/G—uncertain significance
rs1474090612:242,610,729G/A—likely benign
rs14394100772:242,611,618T/C—uncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.