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

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.