How energy deprivation induces macroautophagy/autophagy is not fully understood. Here, we show that Atg11, a receptor protein for cargo recognition in selective autophagy, is required for the initiation of glucose starvation-induced autophagy. Upon glucose starvation, Atg11 facilitates the interaction between Snf1 and Atg1, thus is required for Snf1-dependent Atg1 activation. Phagophore assembly site (PAS) formation requires Atg11 via its control of the association of Atg17 with Atg29-Atg31. The binding of Atg11 with Atg9 is crucial for recruiting Atg9 vesicles to the PAS and, thus, glucose starvation-induced autophagy. We propose Atg11 as a key initiation factor controlling multiple key steps in energy deprivation-induced autophagy. Abbreviations: AMPK: AMP-activated protein kinase; Ams1: α-mannosidase; Ape1: aminopeptidase I; Cvt: cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting; GAPDH: glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase; GFP: green fluorescent protein; MBP: myelin basic protein; MMS: methanesulfonate; PAS: phagophore assembly site; PNBM: p-nitrobenzyl mesylate; SD-G: glucose starvation medium; SD-N: nitrogen starvation medium; ULK1, unc-51 like autophagy activating kinase 1; WT: wild type.

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Yao W, Li Y, Wu L, Wu C, Zhang Y, Liu J, He Z, Wu X, Lu C, Wang L, ... Show all

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