Structural highlights
Disease
VPS54_MOUSE Note=Defects in Vps54 are the cause of wobbler phenotype (wr). Wr is autosomal recessive and is a spontaneous mutation discovered almost 50 years ago. It causes spinal muscular atrophy and defective spermiogenesis.[1]
Function
VPS54_MOUSE May be involved in retrograde transport from early and late endosomes to the late Golgi. The GARP complex is required for the maintenance of the cycling of mannose 6-phosphate receptors between the TGN and endosomes, this cycling is necessary for proper lysosomal sorting of acid hydrolases such as CTSD (By similarity).
Evolutionary Conservation
Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.
See Also
References
- ↑ Schmitt-John T, Drepper C, Mussmann A, Hahn P, Kuhlmann M, Thiel C, Hafner M, Lengeling A, Heimann P, Jones JM, Meisler MH, Jockusch H. Mutation of Vps54 causes motor neuron disease and defective spermiogenesis in the wobbler mouse. Nat Genet. 2005 Nov;37(11):1213-5. Epub 2005 Oct 23. PMID:16244655 doi:10.1038/ng1661