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Recently, we showed that CPAP is an integral Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport (ESCRT)-0-like protein that recruits ESCRT-I protein TSG101 to early endosome (EE) and it positively regulates multi-vesicular body (MVB) formation. Sequential recruitment of the ESCRT protein complexes and AAA+ ATPase VPS4B to EE facilitates MVB biogenesis. VPS4B is critical for ESCRT-III disassembly\/recycling and contributes to membrane fission in several cellular processes. Here, we report that CPAP is critical for the protein stability and EE localization of VPS4B, and this function is independent from its role as an ESCRT-0 protein. Other well-recognized VPS4B-dependent cellular processes such as cytokinesis, extracellular vesicle production, and retroviral budding are also compromised under CPAP deficiency. We found that CPAP overexpression leads to cellular accumulation and CPAP deficiency causes proteasomal degradation of VPS4B. 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