WD repeat domain phosphoinositide-interacting protein 4

Definition:

Component of the autophagy machinery that controls the major intracellular degradation process by which cytoplasmic materials are packaged into autophagosomes and delivered to lysosomes for degradation. Binds phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PtdIns3P). Activated by the STK11/AMPK signaling pathway upon starvation, WDR45 is involved in autophagosome assembly downstream of WIPI2, regulating the size of forming autophagosomes. Together with WIPI1, promotes ATG2 (ATG2A or ATG2B)-mediated lipid transfer by enhancing ATG2-association with phosphatidylinositol 3-monophosphate (PI3P)-containing membranes. Probably recruited to membranes through its PtdIns3P activity.

References:

[1]. Shintaro Maeda, et al. The autophagic membrane tether ATG2A transfers lipids between membranes. Elife. 2019 Jul 4;8:e45777. [Content Brief]

[2]. Daniela Bakula, et al. WIPI3 and WIPI4 β-propellers are scaffolds for LKB1-AMPK-TSC signalling circuits in the control of autophagy. Nat Commun. 2017 May 31;8:15637. [Content Brief]

[3]. Hirotomo Saitsu, et al. De novo mutations in the autophagy gene WDR45 cause static encephalopathy of childhood with neurodegeneration in adulthood. Nat Genet. 2013 Apr;45(4):445-9, 449e1. [Content Brief]

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