UniProt Summary: Ubiquitin-like protein involved in autophagy vesicles formation. Conjugation with ATG5 through a ubiquitin-like conjugating system involving also ATG7 as an E1-like activating enzyme and ATG10 as an E2-like conjugating enzyme, is essential for its function. The ATG12-ATG5 conjugate acts as an E3-like enzyme which is required for lipidation of ATG8 family proteins and their association to the vesicle membranes. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12207896, ECO:0000269|PubMed:17999726, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19074260, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19164948, ECO:0000269|PubMed:23202584}.
Pfam DomainsGO Terms
Pfam Domains
APG12
Atg8
GO Terms
Atg12-Atg5-Atg16 complex
Atg8 ligase activity
C-terminal protein lipidation
C-terminal protein amino acid modification
phagophore assembly site membrane
autophagy of mitochondrion
mitochondrion disassembly
autophagosome assembly
organelle disassembly
autophagosome organization
autophagosome
phagocytic vesicle membrane
protein lipidation
lipoprotein biosynthetic process
lipoprotein metabolic process
vacuole organization
macroautophagy
process utilizing autophagic mechanism
autophagy
post-translational protein modification
cellular component disassembly
mitochondrion organization
organelle assembly
organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process
cellular macromolecule biosynthetic process
macromolecule biosynthetic process
cellular catabolic process
CRISPR Data
Compound HitMost Correlated Genes in ChemogenomicsTissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)