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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 217, Issue 3, Pages 997-1013Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201708039
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- National Institutes of Health [EB019589, GM085273, CA118100, AI042999, AI111935]
- [P20GM121176]
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Autophagy is a conserved eukaryotic process with metabolic, immune, and general homeostatic functions in mammalian cells. Mammalian autophagosomes fuse with lysosomes in a SNA RE-driven process that includes syntaxin 17 (Stx17). How Stx17 translocates to autophagosomes is unknown. In this study, we show that the mechanism of Stx17 recruitment to autophagosomes in human cells entails the small guanosine triphosphatase IRGM. Stx17 directly interacts with IRGM, and efficient Stx17 recruitment to autophagosomes requires IRGM. Both IRGM and Stx17 directly interact with mammalian Atg8 proteins, thus being guided to autophagosomes. We also show that Stx17 is significant in defense against infectious agents and that Stx17-IRGM interaction is targeted by an HIV virulence factor Nef.
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