WD repeat-containing protein 81 (WDR81)

Functions as a negative regulator of the PI3 kinase/PI3K activity associated with endosomal membranes through BECN1, a core subunit of the PI3K complex. By modifying the phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate/PtdInsP3 material of endosomal membranes may regulate endosome fusion, recycling, sorting and early to late endosome transport (PubMed:26783301).

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.