WIPI2

WIPI2
Identifiers
Aliases	WIPI2, ATG18B, Atg21, WIPI-2, CGI-50, WD repeat domain, phosphoinositide interacting 2, IDDSSA
External IDs	OMIM: 609225 MGI: 1923831 HomoloGene: 90887 GeneCards: WIPI2
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 7 (human) Band 7p22.1 Start 5,190,196 bp End 5,233,840 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 5 (mouse) Band 5|5 G2 Start 142,613,453 bp End 142,656,343 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in middle temporal gyrus Brodmann area 23 nipple olfactory bulb inferior ganglion of vagus nerve ventral tegmental area parotid gland pons endothelial cell amniotic fluid Top expressed in spermatocyte lacrimal gland dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus morula superior frontal gyrus spermatid seminiferous tubule ventral tegmental area lip medial dorsal nucleus More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function phosphatidylinositol-5-phosphate binding protein binding phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate binding phosphatidylinositol-3,5-bisphosphate binding lipid binding Cellular component autophagosome cytosol phagophore assembly site membrane membrane phagophore assembly site extrinsic component of membrane nucleoplasm protein-containing complex Biological process autophagy autophagosome maturation macroautophagy autophagosome assembly autophagy of mitochondrion protein lipidation autophagy of nucleus protein localization to phagophore assembly site protein lipidation involved in autophagosome assembly xenophagy cellular response to starvation Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 26100 74781 Ensembl ENSG00000157954 ENSMUSG00000029578 UniProt Q9Y4P8 Q80W47 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001033518 NM_001033519 NM_001033520 NM_001278299 NM_015610 NM_016003 NM_178398 RefSeq (protein) NP_001028690 NP_001028691 NP_001028692 NP_001265228 NP_056425 NP_057087 NP_056425.1 NP_848485 Location (UCSC) Chr 7: 5.19 – 5.23 Mb Chr 5: 142.61 – 142.66 Mb PubMed search
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WD repeat domain phosphoinositide-interacting protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the WIPI2 gene.

Function

WD40 repeat proteins are key components of many essential biologic functions. They regulate the assembly of multiprotein complexes by presenting a beta-propeller platform for simultaneous and reversible protein-protein interactions. Members of the WIPI subfamily of WD40 repeat proteins, such as WIPI2, have a 7-bladed propeller structure and contain a conserved motif for interaction with phospholipids.

WIPI2 is the mammalian homolog of Atg18, not Atg21, along with the closely related protein, WIPI1. WIPI2 mRNA is readily detectable in several commonly used laboratory cell lines (HEK293A, HeLa, A431) and several cancer cell lines, while WIPI1 expression is limited to cancer cells (but is also detected in many human tissues).

The Atg proteins regulate autophagy, which is a lysosomal degradation pathway required for maintaining cell health, surviving periods of nutrient deprivation and also plays a role in cancer, neurodegeneration and immune responses to a diverse range of pathogens. WIPI2 is recruited early to the forming autophagosome, along with DFCP-1, ULK-1 and Atg16, where it positively regulates the lipidation of Atg8 (LC3). This is not true for WIPI1.

See also

• WIPI protein family

References

* Polson HE, de Lartigue J, Rigden DJ, Reedijk M, Urbé S, Clague MJ, Tooze SA (2010). "Mammalian Atg18 (WIPI2) localizes to omegasome-anchored phagophores and positively regulates LC3 lipidation". Autophagy. 6 (4): 506–22. doi:10.4161/auto.6.4.11863. PMID 20505359.

Further reading

• Mehrle A, Rosenfelder H, Schupp I, et al. (2006). "The LIFEdb database in 2006". Nucleic Acids Res. 34 (Database issue): D415–8. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj139. PMC 1347501. PMID 16381901.
• Wiemann S, Arlt D, Huber W, et al. (2004). "From ORFeome to Biology: A Functional Genomics Pipeline". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2136–44. doi:10.1101/gr.2576704. PMC 528930. PMID 15489336.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
• Hillier LW, Fulton RS, Fulton LA, et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence of human chromosome 7". Nature. 424 (6945): 157–64. Bibcode:2003Natur.424..157H. doi:10.1038/nature01782. PMID 12853948.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Simpson JC, Wellenreuther R, Poustka A, et al. (2001). "Systematic subcellular localization of novel proteins identified by large-scale cDNA sequencing". EMBO Rep. 1 (3): 287–92. doi:10.1093/embo-reports/kvd058. PMC 1083732. PMID 11256614.
• Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R, et al. (2001). "Toward a Catalog of Human Genes and Proteins: Sequencing and Analysis of 500 Novel Complete Protein Coding Human cDNAs". Genome Res. 11 (3): 422–35. doi:10.1101/gr.GR1547R. PMC 311072. PMID 11230166.
• Hartley JL, Temple GF, Brasch MA (2001). "DNA Cloning Using In Vitro Site-Specific Recombination". Genome Res. 10 (11): 1788–95. doi:10.1101/gr.143000. PMC 310948. PMID 11076863.
• Lai CH, Chou CY, Ch'ang LY, et al. (2000). "Identification of Novel Human Genes Evolutionarily Conserved in Caenorhabditis elegans by Comparative Proteomics". Genome Res. 10 (5): 703–13. doi:10.1101/gr.10.5.703. PMC 310876. PMID 10810093.
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