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 [Source:SGD;Acc:S000006087]
Chromosome XVI: 237,338-237,979 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006949.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant) and 16 orthologues.