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Structural inhibition of dynamin-mediated membrane fission by endophilin.

eLife | 2017

Dynamin, which mediates membrane fission during endocytosis, binds endophilin and other members of the Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs (BAR) protein family. How endophilin influences endocytic membrane fission is still unclear. Here, we show that dynamin-mediated membrane fission is potently inhibited in vitro when an excess of endophilin co-assembles with dynamin around membrane tubules. We further show by electron microscopy that endophilin intercalates between turns of the dynamin helix and impairs fission by preventing trans interactions between dynamin rungs that are thought to play critical roles in membrane constriction. In living cells, overexpression of endophilin delayed both fission and transferrin uptake. Together, our observations suggest that while endophilin helps shape endocytic tubules and recruit dynamin to endocytic sites, it can also block membrane fission when present in excess by inhibiting inter-dynamin interactions. The sequence of recruitment and the relative stoichiometry of the two proteins may be critical to regulated endocytic fission.

Pubmed ID: 28933693 RIS Download

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Associated grants

  • Agency: NIH HHS, United States
    Id: S10 OD021741
  • Agency: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
    Id: 55108523
  • Agency: European Research Council, International
    Id: 311536
  • Agency: NIH HHS, United States
    Id: S10 OD020054
  • Agency: NINDS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 NS036251
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM127673
  • Agency: NINDS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R37 NS036251
  • Agency: NIH HHS, United States
    Id: S10 OD021596
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: DP2 GM110772

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