Keywords ER-phagy LC3-interacting region (LIR) NMDAR proteostasis CCPG1 Introduction N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are ionotropic glutamate receptors that mediate excitatory neurotransmission, support synaptic development and plasticity, and maintain the excitation-inhibition balance in the central nervous system (1). These heterotetrameric receptors assemble from two obligatory, glycine-binding, GluN1 subunits and two GluN2(A-D) or GluN3(A-B) subunits, encoded by seven GRIN genes (2).