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SUBMITTER: Jean S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4364869 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jean Steve S Cox Sarah S Nassari Sonya S Kiger Amy A AA
EMBO reports 20150203 3
Autophagy, the process for recycling cytoplasm in the lysosome, depends on membrane trafficking. We previously identified Drosophila Sbf as a Rab21 guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) that acts with Rab21 in endosomal trafficking. Here, we show that Sbf/MTMR13 and Rab21 have conserved functions required for starvation-induced autophagy. Depletion of Sbf/MTMR13 or Rab21 blocked endolysosomal trafficking of VAMP8, a SNARE required for autophagosome-lysosome fusion. We show that starvation ind ...[more]