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VAC8

Gene

1 paper1 finding

Taxon

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

Includes the processes named after it and trials of drugs aimed at it.

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funders: Fundación Alfonso Martín Escudero and 4 more
  • Cells1

Effects

1

Autophagy

is required forin yeast cells1

1 study

  1. VAC8 is required for autophagy in yeast cells.

    “both requiring Vac8 to form respective contact sites upon metabolic stress.”

    Cellsmetabolic stress

    LDO proteins and Vac8 form a vacuole-lipid droplet contact site to enable starvation-induced lipophagy in yeast

    Developmental cell13 Feb 2024

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