Activity, membrane recruitment, and expression of Faa1. (A) Coupled enzymatic assay comparing the activities of FadD in the absence of liposomes and Faa1 in the presence of Atg9 vesicle-like liposomes (44% POPC, 6% POPS, 41.5% liver PI, 6% POPE, 2.5% PI3P). Data are means ± SD (n = 3). (B) The autophagic flux of indicated strains expressing 2xGFP-Atg8 after 0, 3, and 6 h of starvation. Upon fusion of the autophagosome with the vacuole to form an autolysosome, Atg8 is rapidly degraded while GFP remains intact for a longer time and can be detected as free GFP by Western blot analysis. Data are means ± SD (n = 4). (C) Fluorescent microscopy assessment of autophagosome biogenesis in indicated strains after 1 and 1 h 15 min of nitrogen starvation and glucose depletion (0.01% wt/vol). Top, representative images of the analyzed strains at indicated time points. Dashed lines indicate cell boundaries. Scale bar, 1 µm. Bottom, respective quantification of AP. Data are means ± SEM (n = 3; 50 cells/strain per replicate). One-way ANOVA: * < 0.05, ** < 0.01. AP = autophagosome. (D) Autophagic flux of indicated strains expressing 2xGFP-Atg8 after 0, 3, and 6 h of starvation and glucose depletion (0.01% wt/vol). Data are means ± SD (n = 5). (E) Cosedimentation assay of Faa-WT-10xHis and Faa1-4D-10xHis with Atg9 vesicle-like LPs or POPC LPs with or without 5% DGS-NTA lipids including quantification. Liposome composition resembled Atg9 vesicles (“Atg9-like LPs”) with 44% POPC, 6% POPS, 41.5% liver PI, 6% POPE, and 2.5% PI3P or only contained 100% POPC (“POPC LPs”). For liposomes containing 5% DGS-NTA, the percentage of POPC was reduced. Data are means ± SD (n = 3). LP = liposome, SN = supernatant, P = pellet. (F) Normalized protein levels of genomically tagged Faa1-WT, Faa1-4D, Faa1-WT-FYVE, and Faa1-4D-FYVE by Western blot quantification. Data are means ± SD (n = 4). Source data are available for this figure: SourceData FS3.