Autophagy can remove excess or dysfunctional proteins and organelles to maintain cellular homeostasis. Browning of white adipose tissue increases the energy expenditure. Microtubules affinity regulated kinase 4 (Mark4) can regulate a variety of physiological processes. According to previous studies, we speculated that Mark4-autophagy-browning of white adipose tissue had certain linkages. Here, we established two autophagy models through serum starvation and rapamycin treatment and detected that the overexpression of Mark4 increased the expression of autophagy-related factors Beclin1, ATG7, and significantly decreased the autophagy substrate P62. Further tests showed that the overexpression of Mark4 promoted the conversion of autophagy marker protein LC3A to LC3B-II by activating the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) pathway and inhibition of the AKT/mTOR signaling. Moreover, Mark4 decreased the expression of thermogenesis genes via promoting autophagy. These results indicated that Mark4 inhibited the browning of white adipose tissue via promoting autophagy. AMPK signaling pathway. By adding compound C, the phosphorylation of AMPK and the formation of LC3B-II were reduced while the level of autophagy substrate p62 was increased ( Figure 4A,B). The results of AKT pathway examination was opposite. The overexpression of Mark4 significantly inhibited the phosphorylation of AKT and mTOR, accompanied by an increase in LC3B-II and a decrease in P62. After treating with the AKT inhibitor MK2206, the phosphorylation levels of AKT, mTOR, and the protein level of P62 were significantly reduced. The LC3B-II expression was increased ( Figure 4C,D). These results indicated that Mark4 could regulate serum starvation-induced autophagy via the AMPK/AKT signal pathway.