The activated LC3 protein is transferred to Cys-263 of ATG3 through a thioester bond (Ichimura et al. 2000, Tanida et al. 2002). Deletion mutagenesis, biochemical data and modeling suggest that recruitment of ATG3 to the ATG7 N-terminal FAP domain results in presentation of the ATG3 active site to the LC3-ATG7 thioester linkage from the opposing monomer in the ATG7 dimer (Tanida et al. 2012, Klionsky & Schulman 2014).
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