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Facts about WD repeat-containing protein 81.
It is for instance, required for the delivery of cargos like BST2/tetherin from early to late endosome and thereby participates indirectly to their degradation by the lysosome (PubMed:27126989). May also play a part in aggrephagy, the macroautophagic degradation of ubiquitinated protein aggregates.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | WDR81 |
| Uniprot: | Q562E7 |
| Entrez: | 124997 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| WD repeat WDR81 family |

WD repeat-containing protein 81
Mass (kDA):
211.697 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 17p13.3 |
| Sequence: | 17; NC_000017.11 (1716523..1738599) |
Widely expressed. In the brain, highest levels in cerebellum and corpus callosum.
Early endosome membrane; Peripheral membrane protein. Late endosome membrane. Lysosome membrane. Cytoplasmic vesicle, autophagosome membrane. Mitochondrion. Cytoplasm, cytosol.


PMID: 26783301 by Liu K., et al. Negative regulation of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate levels in early-to-late endosome conversion.
PMID: 27126989 by Rapiteanu R., et al. A genetic screen identifies a critical role for the WDR81-WDR91 complex in the trafficking and degradation of tetherin.