WD repeat domain phosphoinositide-interacting protein 1 (Wipi1)

Plays an important role in autophagy and specifically starvation- and calcium-mediated autophagy, as well as in mitophagy. Functions upstream of the ATG12-ATG5-ATG16L1 complex and LC3, and downstream of the ULK1 and PI3-kinase complexes.

Involved in xenophagy of Staphylococcus aureus. Invading S.