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Mus musculus Gene: Atg4a
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-254856.7
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol Atg4a
Gene Name autophagy related 4A, cysteine peptidase
Synonyms
Species Mus musculus
Ensembl Gene ENSMUSG00000079418
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-254858
autophagy-related 4A (yeast)
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary This gene does not have any Entrez summary - the following is the summary from its human ortholog ENSG00000101844:
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. Transcript variants that encode distinct isoforms have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome X:140956907-141164270
Strand Forward strand
Band F1
Transcripts
ENSMUST00000112971 ENSMUSP00000108595
ENSMUST00000153742
ENSMUST00000147972
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 0 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 2 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Predicted by orthology
Total 2 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0004197 cysteine-type endopeptidase activity
GO:0008234 cysteine-type peptidase activity
Biological Process
GO:0006508 proteolysis
GO:0006914 autophagy
GO:0015031 protein transport
Cellular Component
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
Orthologs
Species
Homo sapiens
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSG00000101844
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000013724
Not yet available
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
KEGG
mmu04140
Regulation of autophagy pathway
INOH
PID NCI
Pathway Predictions based on Human Orthology Data
NETPATH
REACTOME
KEGG
hsa04140
Regulation of autophagy pathway
INOH
PID NCI
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene
UniGene Mm.240454 Mm.393320
RefSeq NM_174875
OMIM
CCDS
HPRD
IMGT
MGI ID
MGI Symbol
EMBL
GenPept
RNA Seq Atlas

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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