Autophagy-specific protein required for autophagosome formation; forms a complex with Atg17p and Atg29p that localizes other proteins to the pre-autophagosomal structure; constitutively phosphorylated, and phosphorylation of residue S174 is required for function; high-copy suppressor of CIK1 deletion [Source:SGD;Acc:S000002429]
Chromosome IV: 488,072-488,662 reverse strand.
R64-1-1:BK006938.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant) and 11 orthologues.