Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable several functions, including nuclear receptor binding activity; phosphatidylinositol phosphate binding activity; and protein-macromolecule adaptor activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including macroautophagy; positive regulation of autophagosome assembly; and vesicle targeting, trans-Golgi to endosome. Predicted to act upstream of or within autophagy. Located in phagophore assembly site. Is expressed in several structures, including central nervous system and retina. Orthologous to human WIPI1 (WD repeat domain, phosphoinositide interacting 1).