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Prischich D, Camarero N, Encinar del Dedo J, Cambra-Pellejà M, Prat J, Nevola L, Martín-Quirós A, Rebollo E, Pastor L, Giralt E, Geli MI, Gorostiza P. Light-dependent inhibition of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in yeast unveils conserved functions of the AP2 complex. iScience 2023; 26:107899. [PMID: 37766990 PMCID: PMC10520943 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is an essential cellular process, conserved among eukaryotes. Yeast constitutes a powerful genetic model to dissect the complex endocytic machinery, yet there is a lack of specific pharmacological agents to interfere with CME in these organisms. TL2 is a light-regulated peptide inhibitor targeting the AP2-β-adaptin/β-arrestin interaction and that can photocontrol CME with high spatiotemporal precision in mammalian cells. Here, we study endocytic protein dynamics by live-cell imaging of the fluorescently tagged coat-associated protein Sla1-GFP, demonstrating that TL2 retains its inhibitory activity in S. cerevisiae spheroplasts. This is despite the β-adaptin/β-arrestin interaction not being conserved in yeast. Our data indicate that the AP2 α-adaptin is the functional target of activated TL2. We identified as interacting partners for the α-appendage, the Eps15 and epsin homologues Ede1 and Ent1. This demonstrates that endocytic cargo loading and sensing can be executed by conserved molecular interfaces, regardless of the proteins involved.
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- Davia Prischich
- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red – Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red – Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Molecular Imaging Platform, Institute for Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red – Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Barcelona, Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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Mahapatra A, Rangamani P. Formation of protein-mediated bilayer tubes is governed by a snapthrough transition. SOFT MATTER 2023; 19:4345-4359. [PMID: 37255421 PMCID: PMC10330560 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01676a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Plasma membrane tubes are ubiquitous in cellular membranes and in the membranes of intracellular organelles. They play crucial roles in trafficking, ion transport, and cellular motility. These tubes can be formed due to localized forces acting on the membrane or by the curvature induced by membrane-bound proteins. Here, we present a mathematical framework to model cylindrical tubular protrusions formed by proteins that induce anisotropic spontaneous curvature. Our analysis revealed that the tube radius depends on an effective tension that includes contributions from the bare membrane tension and the protein-induced curvature. We also found that the length of the tube undergoes an abrupt transition from a short, dome-shaped membrane to a long cylinder and this transition is characteristic of a snapthrough instability. Finally, we show that the snapthrough instability depends on the different parameters including coat area, bending modulus, and extent of protein-induced curvature. Our findings have implications for tube formation due to BAR-domain proteins in processes such as endocytosis, t-tubule formation in myocytes, and cristae formation in mitochondria.
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- Arijit Mahapatra
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Stoops EH, Ferrin MA, Jorgens DM, Drubin DG. Self-organizing actin networks drive sequential endocytic protein recruitment and vesicle release on synthetic lipid bilayers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2302622120. [PMID: 37216532 PMCID: PMC10235984 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2302622120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023] Open
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Forces generated by actin assembly assist membrane invagination during clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME). The sequential recruitment of core endocytic proteins and regulatory proteins, and assembly of the actin network, are well documented in live cells and are highly conserved from yeasts to humans. However, understanding of CME protein self-organization, as well as the biochemical and mechanical principles that underlie actin's role in CME, is lacking. Here, we show that supported lipid bilayers coated with purified yeast Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP), an endocytic actin assembly regulator, and incubated in cytoplasmic yeast extracts, recruit downstream endocytic proteins and assemble actin networks. Time-lapse imaging of WASP-coated bilayers revealed sequential recruitment of proteins from different endocytic modules, faithfully replicating in vivo behavior. Reconstituted actin networks assemble in a WASP-dependent manner and deform lipid bilayers, as seen by electron microscopy. Time-lapse imaging revealed that vesicles are released from the lipid bilayers with a burst of actin assembly. Actin networks pushing on membranes have previously been reconstituted; here, we have reconstituted a biologically important variation of these actin networks that self-organize on bilayers and produce pulling forces sufficient to bud off membrane vesicles. We propose that actin-driven vesicle generation may represent an ancient evolutionary precursor to diverse vesicle forming processes adapted for a wide array of cellular environments and applications.
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- Emily H. Stoops
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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Hummel DR, Kaksonen M. Spatio-temporal regulation of endocytic protein assembly by SH3 domains in yeast. Mol Biol Cell 2023; 34:ar19. [PMID: 36696224 PMCID: PMC10011730 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e22-09-0406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is a conserved eukaryotic membrane trafficking pathway that is driven by a sequentially assembled molecular machinery that contains over 60 different proteins. SH3 domains are the most abundant protein-protein interaction domain in this process, but the function of most SH3 domains in protein dynamics remains elusive. Using mutagenesis and live-cell fluorescence microscopy in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we dissected SH3-mediated regulation of the endocytic pathway. Our data suggest that multiple SH3 domains regulate the actin nucleation-promoting Las17-Vrp1 complex, and that the network of SH3 interactions coordinates both Las17-Vrp1 assembly and dissociation. Furthermore, most endocytic SH3 domain proteins use the SH3 domain for their own recruitment, while a minority use the SH3 domain to recruit other proteins and not themselves. Our results provide a dynamic map of SH3 functions in yeast endocytosis and a framework for SH3 interaction network studies across biology.
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- Daniel R Hummel
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Department of Biochemistry, 1205 Genève, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Department of Biochemistry, 1205 Genève, Switzerland
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Skruzny M. The endocytic protein machinery as an actin-driven membrane-remodeling machine. Eur J Cell Biol 2022; 101:151267. [PMID: 35970066 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2022.151267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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In clathrin-mediated endocytosis, a principal membrane trafficking route of all eukaryotic cells, forces are applied to invaginate the plasma membrane and form endocytic vesicles. These forces are provided by specific endocytic proteins and the polymerizing actin cytoskeleton. One of the best-studied endocytic systems is endocytosis in yeast, known for its simplicity, experimental amenability, and overall similarity to human endocytosis. Importantly, the yeast endocytic protein machinery generates and transmits tremendous force to bend the plasma membrane, making this system beneficial for mechanistic studies of cellular force-driven membrane reshaping. This review summarizes important protein players, molecular functions, applied forces, and open questions and perspectives of this robust, actin-powered membrane-remodeling protein machine.
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- Michal Skruzny
- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Menon D, Hummel D, Kaksonen M. Regulation of membrane scission in yeast endocytosisDepartment of Biochemistry and National Centre of Competence in Research, Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Mol Biol Cell 2022; 33:ar114. [PMID: 35976707 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e21-07-0346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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During clathrin-mediated endocytosis, a flat plasma membrane is shaped into an invagination that undergoes scission to form a vesicle. In mammalian cells, the force that drives the transition from invagination to vesicle is primarily provided by the GTPase dynamin that acts in concert with crescent-shaped BAR domain proteins. In yeast cells, the mechanism of endocytic scission is unclear. The yeast BAR domain protein complex Rvs161/167 (Rvs) nevertheless plays an important role in this process: deletion of Rvs dramatically reduces scission efficiency. A mechanistic understanding of the influence of Rvs on scission however, remains incomplete. We used quantitative live-cell imaging and genetic manipulation to understand the recruitment and function of Rvs and other late-stage proteins at yeast endocytic sites. We found that arrival of Rvs at endocytic sites is timed by interaction of its BAR domain with specific membrane curvature. A second domain of Rvs167 - the SH3 domain - affects localization efficiency of Rvs. We show that Myo3, one of the two type-I myosins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has a role in recruiting Rvs167 via the SH3 domain. Removal of the SH3 domain also affects assembly and disassembly of actin and impedes membrane invagination. Our results indicate that both BAR and SH3 domains are important for the role of Rvs as a regulator of scission. We tested other proteins implicated in vesicle formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and found that neither synaptojanins nor dynamin contribute directly to membrane scission. We propose that recruitment of Rvs BAR domains delays scission and allows invaginations to grow by stabilizing them. We also propose that vesicle formation is dependent on the force exerted by the actin network.
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- Deepikaa Menon
- Department of Biochemistry and National Centre of Competence in Research, Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry and National Centre of Competence in Research, Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry and National Centre of Competence in Research, Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Auddya D, Zhang X, Gulati R, Vasan R, Garikipati K, Rangamani P, Rudraraju S. Biomembranes undergo complex, non-axisymmetric deformations governed by Kirchhoff-Love kinematicsand revealed by a three-dimensional computational framework. Proc Math Phys Eng Sci 2021; 477:20210246. [PMID: 35153593 PMCID: PMC8580429 DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2021.0246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Biomembranes play a central role in various phenomena like locomotion of cells, cell-cell interactions, packaging and transport of nutrients, transmission of nerve impulses, and in maintaining organelle morphology and functionality. During these processes, the membranes undergo significant morphological changes through deformation, scission, and fusion. Modelling the underlying mechanics of such morphological changes has traditionally relied on reduced order axisymmetric representations of membrane geometry and deformation. Axisymmetric representations, while robust and extensively deployed, suffer from their inability to model-symmetry breaking deformations and structural bifurcations. To address this limitation, a three-dimensional computational mechanics framework for high fidelity modelling of biomembrane deformation is presented. The proposed framework brings together Kirchhoff–Love thin-shell kinematics, Helfrich-energy-based mechanics, and state-of-the-art numerical techniques for modelling deformation of surface geometries. Lipid bilayers are represented as spline-based surface discretizations immersed in a three-dimensional space; this enables modelling of a wide spectrum of membrane geometries, boundary conditions, and deformations that are physically admissible in a three-dimensional space. The mathematical basis of the framework and its numerical machinery are presented, and their utility is demonstrated by modelling three classical, yet non-trivial, membrane deformation problems: formation of tubular shapes and their lateral constriction, Piezo1-induced membrane footprint generation and gating response, and the budding of membranes by protein coats during endocytosis. For each problem, the full three-dimensional membrane deformation is captured, potential symmetry-breaking deformation paths identified, and various case studies of boundary and load conditions are presented. Using the endocytic vesicle budding as a case study, we also present a ‘phase diagram’ for its symmetric and broken-symmetry states.
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- Debabrata Auddya
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Abella M, Andruck L, Malengo G, Skruzny M. Actin-generated force applied during endocytosis measured by Sla2-based FRET tension sensors. Dev Cell 2021; 56:2419-2426.e4. [PMID: 34473942 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Revised: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Mechanical forces are integral to many cellular processes, including clathrin-mediated endocytosis, a principal membrane trafficking route into the cell. During endocytosis, forces provided by endocytic proteins and the polymerizing actin cytoskeleton reshape the plasma membrane into a vesicle. Assessing force requirements of endocytic membrane remodeling is essential for understanding endocytosis. Here, we determined actin-generated force applied during endocytosis using FRET-based tension sensors inserted into the major force-transmitting protein Sla2 in yeast. We measured at least 8 pN force transmitted over Sla2 molecule, hence possibly more than 300-880 pN applied during endocytic vesicle formation. Importantly, decreasing cell turgor pressure and plasma membrane tension reduced force transmitted over the Sla2. The measurements in hypotonic conditions and mutants lacking BAR-domain membrane scaffolds then showed the limits of the endocytic force-transmitting machinery. Our study provides force values and force profiles critical for understanding the mechanics of endocytosis and potentially other key cellular membrane-remodeling processes.
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- Marc Abella
- Department of Systems and Synthetic Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany; LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Systems and Synthetic Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany; LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Flow Cytometry and Imaging Facility, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany; LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Systems and Synthetic Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany; LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), 35043 Marburg, Germany.
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Tozzi C, Walani N, Le Roux AL, Roca-Cusachs P, Arroyo M. A theory of ordering of elongated and curved proteins on membranes driven by density and curvature. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:3367-3379. [PMID: 33644786 DOI: 10.1039/d0sm01733g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Cell membranes interact with a myriad of curvature-active proteins that control membrane morphology and are responsible for mechanosensation and mechanotransduction. Some of these proteins, such as those containing BAR domains, are curved and elongated, and hence may adopt different states of orientational order, from isotropic to maximize entropy to nematic as a result of crowding or to adapt to the curvature of the underlying membrane. Here, extending the classical work of Onsager for ordering in hard particle systems and that of [E. S. Nascimento et al., Phys. Rev. E, 2017, 96, 022704], we develop a mean-field density functional theory to predict the orientational order and evaluate the free energy of ensembles of elongated and curved objects on curved membranes. This theory depends on the microscopic properties of the particles and explains how a density-dependent isotropic-to-nematic transition is modified by anisotropic curvature. We also examine the coexistence of isotropic and nematic phases. This theory predicts how ordering depends on geometry but we assume here that the geometry is fixed. It also lays the ground to understand the interplay between membrane reshaping by BAR proteins and molecular order, examined by [Le Roux et al., submitted, 2020].
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- Caterina Tozzi
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
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Vasan R, Rudraraju S, Akamatsu M, Garikipati K, Rangamani P. A mechanical model reveals that non-axisymmetric buckling lowers the energy barrier associated with membrane neck constriction. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:784-797. [PMID: 31830191 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01494b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Membrane neck formation is essential for scission, which, as recent experiments on tubules have demonstrated, can be location dependent. The diversity of biological machinery that can constrict a neck such as dynamin, actin, ESCRTs and BAR proteins, and the range of forces and deflection over which they operate, suggest that the constriction process is functionally mechanical and robust to changes in biological environment. In this study, we used a mechanical model of the lipid bilayer to systematically investigate the influence of location, symmetry constraints, and helical forces on membrane neck constriction. Simulations from our model demonstrated that the energy barriers associated with constriction of a membrane neck are location-dependent. Importantly, if symmetry restrictions are relaxed, then the energy barrier for constriction is dramatically lowered and the membrane buckles at lower values of forcing parameters. Our simulations also show that constriction due to helical proteins further reduces the energy barrier for neck formation when compared to cylindrical proteins. These studies establish that despite different molecular mechanisms of neck formation in cells, the mechanics of constriction naturally leads to a loss of symmetry that can lower the energy barrier to constriction.
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- R Vasan
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Akamatsu M, Vasan R, Serwas D, Ferrin MA, Rangamani P, Drubin DG. Principles of self-organization and load adaptation by the actin cytoskeleton during clathrin-mediated endocytosis. eLife 2020; 9:49840. [PMID: 31951196 PMCID: PMC7041948 DOI: 10.7554/elife.49840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Force generation by actin assembly shapes cellular membranes. An experimentally constrained multiscale model shows that a minimal branched actin network is sufficient to internalize endocytic pits against membrane tension. Around 200 activated Arp2/3 complexes are required for robust internalization. A newly developed molecule-counting method determined that ~200 Arp2/3 complexes assemble at sites of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in human cells. Simulations predict that actin self-organizes into a radial branched array with growing ends oriented toward the base of the pit. Long actin filaments bend between attachment sites in the coat and the base of the pit. Elastic energy stored in bent filaments, whose presence was confirmed by cryo-electron tomography, contributes to endocytic internalization. Elevated membrane tension directs more growing filaments toward the base of the pit, increasing actin nucleation and bending for increased force production. Thus, spatially constrained actin filament assembly utilizes an adaptive mechanism enabling endocytosis under varying physical constraints. The outer membrane of a cell is a tight but elastic barrier that controls what enters or leaves the cell. Large molecules typically cannot cross this membrane unaided. Instead, to enter the cell, they must be packaged into a pocket of the membrane that is then pulled inside. This process, called endocytosis, shuttles material into a cell hundreds of times a minute. Endocytosis relies on molecular machines that assemble and disassemble at the membrane as required. One component, a protein called actin, self-assembles near the membrane into long filaments with many repeated subunits. These filaments grow against the membrane, pulling it inwards. But it was not clear how actin filaments organize in such a way that allows them to pull on the membrane with enough force – and without a template to follow. Akamatsu et al. set about identifying how actin operates during endocytosis by using computer simulations that were informed by measurements made in living cells. The simulations included information about the location of actin and other essential molecules, along with the details of how these molecules work individually and together. Akamatsu et al. also developed a method to count the numbers of molecules of a key protein at individual sites of endocytosis. High-resolution imaging was then used to create 3D pictures of actin and endocytosis in action in human cells grown in the laboratory. The analysis showed the way actin filaments arrange themselves depends on the starting positions of a few key molecules that connect to actin. Imaging confirmed that, like a pole-vaulting pole, the flexible actin filaments bend to store energy and then release it to pull the membrane inwards during endocytosis. Finally, the simulations predicted that the collection of filaments adapts its shape and size in response to the resistance of the elastic membrane. This makes the system opportunistic and adaptable to the unpredictable environment within cells.
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- Matthew Akamatsu
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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MacQuarrie CD, Mangione MC, Carroll R, James M, Gould KL, Sirotkin V. The S. pombe adaptor protein Bbc1 regulates localization of Wsp1 and Vrp1 during endocytic actin patch assembly. J Cell Sci 2019; 132:jcs233502. [PMID: 31391237 PMCID: PMC6771142 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.233502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Arp2/3 complex-nucleated branched actin networks provide the key force necessary for endocytosis. The Arp2/3 complex is activated by nucleation-promoting factors including the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (Wsp1) and myosin-1 (Myo1). There are >40 known yeast endocytic proteins with distinct spatial and temporal localizations and functions; however, it is still unclear how these proteins work together to drive endocytosis. Here, we used quantitative live-cell imaging to determine the function of the uncharacterized S. pombe protein Bbc1. We discovered that Myo1 interacts with and recruits Bbc1 to sites of endocytosis. Bbc1 competes with the verprolin Vrp1 for localization to patches and association with Myo1, thus releasing Vrp1 and its binding partner Wsp1 from Myo1. Normally Myo1 remains at the base of the endocytic invagination and Vrp1-Wsp1 internalizes with the endocytic vesicle. However, in the absence of Bbc1, a portion of Vrp1-Wsp1 remains with Myo1 at the base of the invagination, and endocytic structures internalize twice as far. We propose that Bbc1 disrupts a transient interaction of Myo1 with Vrp1 and Wsp1 and thereby limits Arp2/3 complex-mediated nucleation of actin branches at the plasma membrane.This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.
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- Cameron Dale MacQuarrie
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
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Snead WT, Zeno WF, Kago G, Perkins RW, Richter JB, Zhao C, Lafer EM, Stachowiak JC. BAR scaffolds drive membrane fission by crowding disordered domains. J Cell Biol 2018; 218:664-682. [PMID: 30504247 PMCID: PMC6363457 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201807119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Revised: 10/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Cylindrical protein scaffolds are thought to stabilize membrane tubules, preventing membrane fission. In contrast, Snead et al. find that when scaffold proteins assemble, bulky disordered domains within them become acutely concentrated, generating steric pressure that destabilizes tubules, driving fission. Cellular membranes are continuously remodeled. The crescent-shaped bin-amphiphysin-rvs (BAR) domains remodel membranes in multiple cellular pathways. Based on studies of isolated BAR domains in vitro, the current paradigm is that BAR domain–containing proteins polymerize into cylindrical scaffolds that stabilize lipid tubules. But in nature, proteins that contain BAR domains often also contain large intrinsically disordered regions. Using in vitro and live cell assays, here we show that full-length BAR domain–containing proteins, rather than stabilizing membrane tubules, are instead surprisingly potent drivers of membrane fission. Specifically, when BAR scaffolds assemble at membrane surfaces, their bulky disordered domains become crowded, generating steric pressure that destabilizes lipid tubules. More broadly, we observe this behavior with BAR domains that have a range of curvatures. These data suggest that the ability to concentrate disordered domains is a key driver of membrane remodeling and fission by BAR domain–containing proteins.
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- Wilton T Snead
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.,Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX .,Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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Lacy MM, Ma R, Ravindra NG, Berro J. Molecular mechanisms of force production in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. FEBS Lett 2018; 592:3586-3605. [PMID: 30006986 PMCID: PMC6231980 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2018] [Revised: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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During clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME), a flat patch of membrane is invaginated and pinched off to release a vesicle into the cytoplasm. In yeast CME, over 60 proteins-including a dynamic actin meshwork-self-assemble to deform the plasma membrane. Several models have been proposed for how actin and other molecules produce the forces necessary to overcome the mechanical barriers of membrane tension and turgor pressure, but the precise mechanisms and a full picture of their interplay are still not clear. In this review, we discuss the evidence for these force production models from a quantitative perspective and propose future directions for experimental and theoretical work that could clarify their various contributions.
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- Michael M Lacy
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Nanobiology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA
- Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Nanobiology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Nanobiology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA
- Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Nanobiology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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Alimohamadi H, Rangamani P. Modeling Membrane Curvature Generation due to Membrane⁻Protein Interactions. Biomolecules 2018; 8:E120. [PMID: 30360496 PMCID: PMC6316661 DOI: 10.3390/biom8040120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2018] [Revised: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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To alter and adjust the shape of the plasma membrane, cells harness various mechanisms of curvature generation. Many of these curvature generation mechanisms rely on the interactions between peripheral membrane proteins, integral membrane proteins, and lipids in the bilayer membrane. Mathematical and computational modeling of membrane curvature generation has provided great insights into the physics underlying these processes. However, one of the challenges in modeling these processes is identifying the suitable constitutive relationships that describe the membrane free energy including protein distribution and curvature generation capability. Here, we review some of the commonly used continuum elastic membrane models that have been developed for this purpose and discuss their applications. Finally, we address some fundamental challenges that future theoretical methods need to overcome to push the boundaries of current model applications.
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- Haleh Alimohamadi
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA.
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA.
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Alimohamadi H, Vasan R, Hassinger J, Stachowiak J, Rangamani P. The role of traction in membrane curvature generation. Mol Biol Cell 2018; 29:2024-2035. [PMID: 30044708 PMCID: PMC6232966 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e18-02-0087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2018] [Revised: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Curvature of biological membranes can be generated by a variety of molecular mechanisms including protein scaffolding, compositional heterogeneity, and cytoskeletal forces. These mechanisms have the net effect of generating tractions (force per unit length) on the bilayer that are translated into distinct shapes of the membrane. Here, we demonstrate how the local shape of the membrane can be used to infer the traction acting locally on the membrane. We show that buds and tubes, two common membrane deformations studied in trafficking processes, have different traction distributions along the membrane and that these tractions are specific to the molecular mechanism used to generate these shapes. Furthermore, we show that the magnitude of an axial force applied to the membrane as well as that of an effective line tension can be calculated from these tractions. Finally, we consider the sensitivity of these quantities with respect to uncertainties in material properties and follow with a discussion on sources of uncertainty in membrane shape.
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- H. Alimohamadi
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Biophysics Graduate Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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Mund M, van der Beek JA, Deschamps J, Dmitrieff S, Hoess P, Monster JL, Picco A, Nédélec F, Kaksonen M, Ries J. Systematic Nanoscale Analysis of Endocytosis Links Efficient Vesicle Formation to Patterned Actin Nucleation. Cell 2018; 174:884-896.e17. [PMID: 30057119 PMCID: PMC6086932 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.06.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Revised: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is an essential cellular function in all eukaryotes that is driven by a self-assembled macromolecular machine of over 50 different proteins in tens to hundreds of copies. How these proteins are organized to produce endocytic vesicles with high precision and efficiency is not understood. Here, we developed high-throughput superresolution microscopy to reconstruct the nanoscale structural organization of 23 endocytic proteins from over 100,000 endocytic sites in yeast. We found that proteins assemble by radially ordered recruitment according to function. WASP family proteins form a circular nanoscale template on the membrane to spatially control actin nucleation during vesicle formation. Mathematical modeling of actin polymerization showed that this WASP nano-template optimizes force generation for membrane invagination and substantially increases the efficiency of endocytosis. Such nanoscale pre-patterning of actin nucleation may represent a general design principle for directional force generation in membrane remodeling processes such as during cell migration and division.
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- Markus Mund
- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; Collaboration for joint PhD degree between EMBL and Heidelberg University, Faculty of Biosciences
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and NCCR Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest Ansermet 30, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and NCCR Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest Ansermet 30, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Miao Y, Tipakornsaowapak T, Zheng L, Mu Y, Lewellyn E. Phospho-regulation of intrinsically disordered proteins for actin assembly and endocytosis. FEBS J 2018; 285:2762-2784. [PMID: 29722136 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Revised: 04/04/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Actin filament assembly contributes to the endocytic pathway pleiotropically, with active roles in clathrin-dependent and clathrin-independent endocytosis as well as subsequent endosomal trafficking. Endocytosis comprises a series of dynamic events, including the initiation of membrane curvature, bud invagination, vesicle abscission and subsequent vesicular transport. The ultimate success of endocytosis requires the coordinated activities of proteins that trigger actin polymerization, recruit actin-binding proteins (ABPs) and organize endocytic proteins (EPs) that promote membrane curvature through molecular crowding or scaffolding mechanisms. A particularly interesting phenomenon is that multiple EPs and ABPs contain a substantial percentage of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), which can contribute to protein coacervation and phase separation. In addition, intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) frequently contain sites for post-translational modifications (PTMs) such as phosphorylation, and these modifications exhibit a high preference for IDR residues [Groban ES et al. (2006) PLoS Comput Biol 2, e32]. PTMs are implicated in regulating protein function by modulating the protein conformation, protein-protein interactions and the transition between order and disorder states of IDPs. The molecular mechanisms by which IDRs of ABPs and EPs fine-tune actin assembly and endocytosis remain mostly unexplored and elusive. In this review, we analyze protein sequences of budding yeast EPs and ABPs, and discuss the potential underlying mechanisms for regulating endocytosis and actin assembly through the emerging concept of IDR-mediated protein multivalency, coacervation, and phase transition, with an emphasis on the phospho-regulation of IDRs. Finally, we summarize the current understanding of how these mechanisms coordinate actin cytoskeleton assembly and membrane curvature formation during endocytosis in budding yeast.
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- Yansong Miao
- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.,School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biology, Division of Natural Sciences, St Norbert College, De Pere, WI, USA
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Yang Y, Xiong D, Pipathsouk A, Weiner OD, Wu M. Clathrin Assembly Defines the Onset and Geometry of Cortical Patterning. Dev Cell 2017; 43:507-521.e4. [PMID: 29161594 PMCID: PMC5826602 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.10.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2016] [Revised: 09/16/2017] [Accepted: 10/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Assembly of the endocytic machinery is a constitutively active process that is important for the organization of the plasma membrane, signal transduction, and membrane trafficking. Existing research has focused on the stochastic nature of endocytosis. Here, we report the emergence of the collective dynamics of endocytic proteins as periodic traveling waves on the cell surface. Coordinated clathrin assembly provides the earliest spatial cue for cortical waves and sets the direction of propagation. Surprisingly, the onset of clathrin waves, but not individual endocytic events, requires feedback from downstream factors, including FBP17, Cdc42, and N-WASP. In addition to the localized endocytic assembly at the plasma membrane, intracellular clathrin and phosphatidylinositol-3,4-bisphosphate predict the excitability of the plasma membrane and modulate the geometry of traveling waves. Collectively, our data demonstrate the multiplicity of clathrin functions in cortical pattern formation and provide important insights regarding the nucleation and propagation of single-cell patterns.
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- Yang Yang
- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117411, Singapore; Centre for Bioimaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117557, Singapore
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- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117411, Singapore; Centre for Bioimaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117557, Singapore
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158-9001, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158-9001, USA
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- Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117411, Singapore; Centre for Bioimaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117557, Singapore; Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore.
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Sahu A, Sauer RA, Mandadapu KK. Irreversible thermodynamics of curved lipid membranes. Phys Rev E 2017; 96:042409. [PMID: 29347561 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.96.042409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The theory of irreversible thermodynamics for arbitrarily curved lipid membranes is presented here. The coupling between elastic bending and irreversible processes such as intramembrane lipid flow, intramembrane phase transitions, and protein binding and diffusion is studied. The forms of the entropy production for the irreversible processes are obtained, and the corresponding thermodynamic forces and fluxes are identified. Employing the linear irreversible thermodynamic framework, the governing equations of motion along with appropriate boundary conditions are provided.
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- Amaresh Sahu
- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES), RWTH Aachen University, Templergraben 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Sun Y, Leong NT, Jiang T, Tangara A, Darzacq X, Drubin DG. Switch-like Arp2/3 activation upon WASP and WIP recruitment to an apparent threshold level by multivalent linker proteins in vivo. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 28813247 PMCID: PMC5559269 DOI: 10.7554/elife.29140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2017] [Accepted: 07/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Actin-related protein 2/3 (Arp2/3) complex activation by nucleation promoting factors (NPFs) such as WASP, plays an important role in many actin-mediated cellular processes. In yeast, Arp2/3-mediated actin filament assembly drives endocytic membrane invagination and vesicle scission. Here we used genetics and quantitative live-cell imaging to probe the mechanisms that concentrate NPFs at endocytic sites, and to investigate how NPFs regulate actin assembly onset. Our results demonstrate that SH3 (Src homology 3) domain-PRM (proline-rich motif) interactions involving multivalent linker proteins play central roles in concentrating NPFs at endocytic sites. Quantitative imaging suggested that productive actin assembly initiation is tightly coupled to accumulation of threshold levels of WASP and WIP, but not to recruitment kinetics or release of autoinhibition. These studies provide evidence that WASP and WIP play central roles in establishment of a robust multivalent SH3 domain-PRM network in vivo, giving actin assembly onset at endocytic sites a switch-like behavior. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.29140.001 Actin is one of the most abundant proteins in yeast, mammalian and other eukaryotic cells. It assembles into long chains known as filaments that the cell uses to generate forces for various purposes. For example, actin filaments are needed to pull part of the membrane surrounding the cell inwards to bring molecules from the external environment into the cell by a process called endocytosis. In yeast, a member of the WASP family of proteins promotes the assembly of actin filaments around the site where endocytosis will occur. To achieve this, WASP interacts with several other proteins including WIP and myosin, a motor protein that moves along actin filaments to generate mechanical forces. However, it was not clear how these proteins work together to trigger actin filaments to assemble at the right place and time. Sun et al. addressed this question by studying yeast cells with genetic mutations affecting one or more of these proteins. The experiments show that WASP, myosin and WIP are recruited to sites where endocytosis is about to occur through specific interactions with other proteins. For example, a region of WASP known as the proline-rich domain can bind to proteins that contain an “SH3” domain. WASP and WIP arrive first, stimulating actin to assemble in an “all and nothing” manner and attracting myosin to the actin. Further experiments indicate that WASP and WIP need to reach a threshold level before actin starts to assemble. The findings of Sun et al. suggest that WASP and WIP play key roles in establishing the network of proteins needed for actin filaments to assemble during endocytosis. These proteins are needed for many other processes in yeast and other cells, including mammalian cells. Therefore, the next steps will be to investigate whether WASP and WIP use the same mechanism to operate in other situations. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.29140.002
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- Yidi Sun
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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Schöneberg J, Lehmann M, Ullrich A, Posor Y, Lo WT, Lichtner G, Schmoranzer J, Haucke V, Noé F. Lipid-mediated PX-BAR domain recruitment couples local membrane constriction to endocytic vesicle fission. Nat Commun 2017. [PMID: 28627515 PMCID: PMC5481832 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) involves membrane-associated scaffolds of the bin-amphiphysin-rvs (BAR) domain protein family as well as the GTPase dynamin, and is accompanied and perhaps triggered by changes in local lipid composition. How protein recruitment, scaffold assembly and membrane deformation is spatiotemporally controlled and coupled to fission is poorly understood. We show by computational modelling and super-resolution imaging that phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate [PI(3,4)P2] synthesis within the clathrin-coated area of endocytic intermediates triggers selective recruitment of the PX-BAR domain protein SNX9, as a result of complex interactions of endocytic proteins competing for phospholipids. The specific architecture induces positioning of SNX9 at the invagination neck where its self-assembly regulates membrane constriction, thereby providing a template for dynamin fission. These data explain how lipid conversion at endocytic pits couples local membrane constriction to fission. Our work demonstrates how computational modelling and super-resolution imaging can be combined to unravel function and mechanisms of complex cellular processes. The spatiotemporal regulation of membrane scaffolds recruitment and coupling between membrane deformation and fission in endocytosis are unclear. Here the authors show that lipid conversion at endocytic pits recruits SNX9, which couples local membrane constriction to fission in endocytosis.
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- Johannes Schöneberg
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Robert-Roessle-Straße 10, Berlin 13125, Germany.,Faculty of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Robert-Roessle-Straße 10, Berlin 13125, Germany.,Faculty of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Robert-Roessle-Straße 10, Berlin 13125, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany.,Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Robert-Roessle-Straße 10, Berlin 13125, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Robert-Roessle-Straße 10, Berlin 13125, Germany.,Faculty of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Robert-Roessle-Straße 10, Berlin 13125, Germany.,Faculty of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany.,NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Virchowweg 6, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany
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Irajizad E, Walani N, Veatch SL, Liu AP, Agrawal A. Clathrin polymerization exhibits high mechano-geometric sensitivity. SOFT MATTER 2017; 13:1455-1462. [PMID: 28124714 PMCID: PMC5452080 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm02623k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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How tension modulates cellular transport has become a topic of interest in the recent past. However, the effect of tension on clathrin assembly and vesicle growth remains less understood. Here, we use the classical Helfrich theory to predict the energetic cost that clathrin is required to pay to remodel the membrane at different stages of vesicle formation. Our study reveals that this energetic cost is highly sensitive to not only the tension in the membrane but also to the instantaneous geometry of the membrane during shape evolution. Our study predicts a sharp reduction in clathrin coat size in the intermediate tension regime (0.01-0.1 mN m-1). Remarkably, the natural propensity of the membrane to undergo bending beyond the Ω shape causes a significant decrease in the energy needed from clathrin to drive vesicle growth. Our studies in mammalian cells confirm a reduction in clathrin coat size in an increased tension environment. In addition, our findings suggest that the two apparently distinct clathrin assembly modes, namely coated pits and coated plaques, observed in experimental investigations might be a consequence of varied tensions in the plasma membrane. Overall, the mechano-geometric sensitivity revealed in this study might also be at play during the polymerization of other membrane remodeling proteins.
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- Ehsan Irajizad
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
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Design principles for robust vesiculation in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:E1118-E1127. [PMID: 28126722 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1617705114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A critical step in cellular-trafficking pathways is the budding of membranes by protein coats, which recent experiments have demonstrated can be inhibited by elevated membrane tension. The robustness of processes like clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) across a diverse range of organisms and mechanical environments suggests that the protein machinery in this process has evolved to take advantage of some set of physical design principles to ensure robust vesiculation against opposing forces like membrane tension. Using a theoretical model for membrane mechanics and membrane protein interaction, we have systematically investigated the influence of membrane rigidity, curvature induced by the protein coat, area covered by the protein coat, membrane tension, and force from actin polymerization on bud formation. Under low tension, the membrane smoothly evolves from a flat to budded morphology as the coat area or spontaneous curvature increases, whereas the membrane remains essentially flat at high tensions. At intermediate, physiologically relevant, tensions, the membrane undergoes a "snap-through instability" in which small changes in the coat area, spontaneous curvature or membrane tension cause the membrane to "snap" from an open, U-shape to a closed bud. This instability can be smoothed out by increasing the bending rigidity of the coat, allowing for successful budding at higher membrane tensions. Additionally, applied force from actin polymerization can bypass the instability by inducing a smooth transition from an open to a closed bud. Finally, a combination of increased coat rigidity and force from actin polymerization enables robust vesiculation even at high membrane tensions.
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Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is an essential cellular process that involves the concerted assembly and disassembly of many different proteins at the plasma membrane. In yeast, live-cell imaging has shown that the spatiotemporal dynamics of these proteins is highly stereotypical. Recent work has focused on determining how the timing and functions of endocytic proteins are regulated. In this Cell Science at a Glance article and accompanying poster, we review our current knowledge of the timeline of endocytic site maturation and discuss recent works focusing on how phosphorylation, ubiquitylation and lipids regulate various aspects of the process.
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- Rebecca Lu
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Myers MD, Ryazantsev S, Hicke L, Payne GS. Calmodulin Promotes N-BAR Domain-Mediated Membrane Constriction and Endocytosis. Dev Cell 2016; 37:162-73. [PMID: 27093085 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2015] [Revised: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 03/16/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Membrane remodeling by BAR (Bin, Amphiphysin, RVS) domain-containing proteins, such as endophilins and amphiphysins, is integral to the process of endocytosis. However, little is known about the regulation of endocytic BAR domain activity. We have identified an interaction between the yeast Rvs167 N-BAR domain and calmodulin. Calmodulin-binding mutants of Rvs167 exhibited defects in endocytic vesicle release. In vitro, calmodulin enhanced membrane tubulation and constriction by wild-type Rvs167 but not calmodulin-binding-defective mutants. A subset of mammalian N-BAR domains bound calmodulin, and co-expression of calmodulin with endophilin A2 potentiated tubulation in vivo. These studies reveal a conserved role for calmodulin in regulating the intrinsic membrane-sculpting activity of endocytic N-BAR domains.
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- Margaret D Myers
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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Gleisner M, Kroppen B, Fricke C, Teske N, Kliesch TT, Janshoff A, Meinecke M, Steinem C. Epsin N-terminal Homology Domain (ENTH) Activity as a Function of Membrane Tension. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:19953-61. [PMID: 27466364 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.731612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The epsin N-terminal homology domain (ENTH) is a major player in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. To investigate the influence of initial membrane tension on ENTH binding and activity, we established a bilayer system based on adhered giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) to be able to control and adjust the membrane tension σ covering a broad regime. The shape of each individual adhered GUV as well as its adhesion area was monitored by spinning disc confocal laser microscopy. Control of σ in a range of 0.08-1.02 mN/m was achieved by altering the Mg(2+) concentration in solution, which changes the surface adhesion energy per unit area of the GUVs. Specific binding of ENTH to phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate leads to a substantial increase in adhesion area of the sessile GUV. At low tension (<0.1 mN/m) binding of ENTH can induce tubular structures, whereas at higher membrane tension the ENTH interaction deflates the sessile GUV and thereby increases the adhesion area. The increase in adhesion area is mainly attributed to a decrease in the area compressibility modulus KA We propose that the insertion of the ENTH helix-0 into the membrane is largely responsible for the observed decrease in KA, which is supported by the observation that the mutant ENTH L6E shows a reduced increase in adhesion area. These results demonstrate that even in the absence of tubule formation, the area compressibility modulus and, as such, the bending rigidity of the membrane is considerably reduced upon ENTH binding. This renders membrane bending and tubule formation energetically less costly.
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- Martin Gleisner
- From the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, University of Göttingen, Humboldtallee 23, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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- From the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- From the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, and
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, University of Göttingen, Humboldtallee 23, 37073 Göttingen, Germany, European Neuroscience Institute, 37073 Göttingen, Germany,
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- From the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Kukulski W, Picco A, Specht T, Briggs JA, Kaksonen M. Clathrin modulates vesicle scission, but not invagination shape, in yeast endocytosis. eLife 2016; 5. [PMID: 27341079 PMCID: PMC4945154 DOI: 10.7554/elife.16036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2016] [Accepted: 06/23/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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In a previous paper (Picco et al., 2015), the dynamic architecture of the protein machinery during clathrin-mediated endocytosis was visualized using a new live imaging and particle tracking method. Here, by combining this approach with correlative light and electron microscopy, we address the role of clathrin in this process. During endocytosis, clathrin forms a cage-like coat around the membrane and associated protein components. There is growing evidence that clathrin does not determine the membrane morphology of the invagination but rather modulates the progression of endocytosis. We investigate how the deletion of clathrin heavy chain impairs the dynamics and the morphology of the endocytic membrane in budding yeast. Our results show that clathrin is not required for elongating or shaping the endocytic membrane invagination. Instead, we find that clathrin contributes to the regularity of vesicle scission and thereby to controlling vesicle size. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16036.001
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- Wanda Kukulski
- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Cell Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Lewellyn EB, Pedersen RTA, Hong J, Lu R, Morrison HM, Drubin DG. An Engineered Minimal WASP-Myosin Fusion Protein Reveals Essential Functions for Endocytosis. Dev Cell 2016; 35:281-94. [PMID: 26555049 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2015] [Revised: 09/21/2015] [Accepted: 10/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Actin polymerization powers membrane deformation during many processes, including clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME). During CME in yeast, actin polymerization is triggered and coordinated by a six-protein WASP/Myosin complex that includes WASP, class I myosins (Myo3 and Myo5), WIP (Vrp1), and two other proteins. We show that a single engineered protein can replace this entire complex while still supporting CME. This engineered protein reveals that the WASP/Myosin complex has four essential activities: recruitment to endocytic sites, anchorage to the plasma membrane, Arp2/3 activation, and transient actin filament binding by the motor domain. The requirement for both membrane and F-actin binding reveals that myosin-mediated coupling between actin filaments and the base of endocytic sites is essential for allowing actin polymerization to drive membrane invagination.
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- Eric B Lewellyn
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Biology, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI 54911, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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de León N, Hoya M, Curto MA, Moro S, Yanguas F, Doncel C, Valdivieso MH. The AP-2 complex is required for proper temporal and spatial dynamics of endocytic patches in fission yeast. Mol Microbiol 2016; 100:409-24. [PMID: 26749213 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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In metazoans the AP-2 complex has a well-defined role in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. By contrast, its direct role in endocytosis in unicellular eukaryotes has been questioned. Here, we report co- immunoprecipitation between the fission yeast AP-2 component Apl3p and clathrin, as well as the genetic interactions between apl3Δ and clc1 and sla2Δ/end4Δ mutants. Furthermore, a double clc1 apl3Δ mutant was found to be defective in FM4-64 uptake. In an otherwise wild-type strain, apl3Δ cells exhibit altered dynamics of the endocytic sites, with a heterogeneous and extended lifetime of early and late markers at the patches. Additionally, around 50% of the endocytic patches exhibit abnormal spatial dynamics, with immobile patches and patches that bounce backwards to the cell surface, showing a pervasive effect of the absence of AP-2. These alterations in the endocytic machinery result in abnormal cell wall synthesis and morphogenesis. Our results complement those found in budding yeast and confirm that a direct role of AP-2 in endocytosis has been conserved throughout evolution.
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- Nagore de León
- Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), University of Salamanca/CSIC, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), University of Salamanca/CSIC, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), University of Salamanca/CSIC, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), University of Salamanca/CSIC, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), University of Salamanca/CSIC, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), University of Salamanca/CSIC, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), University of Salamanca/CSIC, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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Jelerčič U, Gov NS. Pearling instability of membrane tubes driven by curved proteins and actin polymerization. Phys Biol 2015; 12:066022. [PMID: 26716426 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/12/6/066022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Membrane deformation inside living cells is crucial for the proper shaping of various intracellular organelles and is necessary during the fission/fusion processes that allow membrane recycling and transport (e.g. endocytosis). Proteins that induce membrane curvature play a key role in such processes, mostly by adsorbing to the membrane and forming a scaffold that deforms the membrane according to the curvature of the proteins. In this paper we explore the possibility of membrane tube destabilization through a pearling mechanism enabled by the combined effects of the adsorbed curved proteins and the actin polymerization that they recruit. The pearling instability can serve as the initiation for fission of the tube into vesicles. We find that adsorbed curved proteins are more likely to stabilize the tubes, while the actin polymerization can provide the additional constrictive force needed for the robust instability. We discuss the relevance of the theoretical results to in vivo and in vitro experiments.
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- U Jelerčič
- Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Theoretical Physics, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, PO Box 26, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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An Amphiphysin-Like Domain in Fus2p Is Required for Rvs161p Interaction and Cortical Localization. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2015; 6:337-49. [PMID: 26681517 PMCID: PMC4751553 DOI: 10.1534/g3.115.023960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Cell–cell fusion fulfils essential roles in fertilization, development and tissue repair. In the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, fusion between two haploid cells of opposite mating type generates the diploid zygote. Fus2p is a pheromone-induced protein that regulates cell wall removal during mating. Fus2p shuttles from the nucleus to localize at the shmoo tip, bound to Rvs161p, an amphiphysin. However, Rvs161p independently binds a second amphiphysin, Rvs167p, playing an essential role in endocytosis. To understand the basis of the Fus2p–Rvs161p interaction, we analyzed Fus2p structural domains. A previously described N-terminal domain (NTD) is necessary and sufficient to regulate nuclear/cytoplasmic trafficking of Fus2p. The Dbl homology domain (DBH) binds GTP-bound Cdc42p; binding is required for cell fusion, but not localization. We identified an approximately 200 amino acid region of Fus2p that is both necessary and sufficient for Rvs161p binding. The Rvs161p binding domain (RBD) contains three predicted alpha-helices; structural modeling suggests that the RBD adopts an amphiphysin-like structure. The RBD contains a 13-amino-acid region, conserved with Rvs161p and other amphiphysins, which is essential for binding. Mutations in the RBD, predicted to affect membrane binding, abolish cell fusion without affecting Rvs161p binding. We propose that Fus2p/Rvs161p form a novel heterodimeric amphiphysin required for cell fusion. Rvs161p binding is required but not sufficient for Fus2p localization. Mutations in the C-terminal domain (CTD) of Fus2p block localization, but not Rvs161p binding, causing a significant defect in cell fusion. We conclude that the Fus2p CTD mediates an additional, Rvs161p-independent interaction at the shmoo tip.
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Dmitrieff S, Nédélec F. Membrane Mechanics of Endocytosis in Cells with Turgor. PLoS Comput Biol 2015; 11:e1004538. [PMID: 26517669 PMCID: PMC4627814 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2015] [Accepted: 09/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Endocytosis is an essential process by which cells internalize a piece of plasma membrane and material from the outside. In cells with turgor, pressure opposes membrane deformations, and increases the amount of force that has to be generated by the endocytic machinery. To determine this force, and calculate the shape of the membrane, we used physical theory to model an elastic surface under pressure. Accurate fits of experimental profiles are obtained assuming that the coated membrane is highly rigid and preferentially curved at the endocytic site. The forces required from the actin machinery peaks at the onset of deformation, indicating that once invagination has been initiated, endocytosis is unlikely to stall before completion. Coat proteins do not lower the initiation force but may affect the process by the curvature they induce. In the presence of isotropic curvature inducers, pulling the tip of the invagination can trigger the formation of a neck at the base of the invagination. Hence direct neck constriction by actin may not be required, while its pulling role is essential. Finally, the theory shows that anisotropic curvature effectors stabilize membrane invaginations, and the loss of crescent-shaped BAR domain proteins such as Rvs167 could therefore trigger membrane scission. Cells use endocytosis to intake molecules and to recycle components of their membrane. Even in its simplest form, endocytosis involves a large number of proteins with often redundant functions that are organized into a microscopic force-producing “machine”. Knowing how much force is needed to induce a membrane invagination is essential to understand how this endocytic machine may operate. We show that experimental membrane shapes are well described theoretically by a thin sheet elastic model including a difference of pressure across the membrane due to turgor. This allows us to integrate the different contributions that shape the membrane, and to compute the forces opposing membrane deformation. This calculation provides an estimate of the pulling force that must be generated by the actin machinery in yeast. We also identify a membrane instability that could lead to vesicle budding.
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- Serge Dmitrieff
- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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Simunovic M, Voth GA, Callan-Jones A, Bassereau P. When Physics Takes Over: BAR Proteins and Membrane Curvature. Trends Cell Biol 2015; 25:780-792. [PMID: 26519988 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2015.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2015] [Revised: 09/08/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Cell membranes become highly curved during membrane trafficking, cytokinesis, infection, immune response, or cell motion. Bin/amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) domain proteins with their intrinsically curved and anisotropic shape are involved in many of these processes, but with a large spectrum of modes of action. In vitro experiments and multiscale computer simulations have contributed in identifying a minimal set of physical parameters, namely protein density on the membrane, membrane tension, and membrane shape, that control how bound BAR domain proteins behave on the membrane. In this review, we summarize the multifaceted coupling of BAR proteins to membrane mechanics and propose a simple phase diagram that recapitulates the effects of these parameters.
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- Mijo Simunovic
- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, James Franck Institute and Computation Institute, The University of Chicago, 5735 S Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, F-75248 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, James Franck Institute and Computation Institute, The University of Chicago, 5735 S Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Université Paris Diderot, F-75205 Paris, France; CNRS, Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057, F-75205 Paris, France
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- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, F-75248 Paris, France; CNRS, PhysicoChimie Curie, UMR 168, F-75248 Paris, France; Université Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75252 Paris, France.
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Prévost C, Zhao H, Manzi J, Lemichez E, Lappalainen P, Callan-Jones A, Bassereau P. IRSp53 senses negative membrane curvature and phase separates along membrane tubules. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8529. [PMID: 26469246 PMCID: PMC4634128 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 08/30/2015] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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BAR domain proteins contribute to membrane deformation in diverse cellular processes. The inverted-BAR (I-BAR) protein IRSp53, for instance, is found on the inner leaflet of the tubular membrane of filopodia; however its role in the formation of these structures is incompletely understood. Here we develop an original assay in which proteins are encapsulated in giant unilamellar vesicles connected to membrane nanotubes. Our results demonstrate that I-BAR dimers sense negative membrane curvature. Experiment and theory reveal that the I-BAR displays a non-monotonic sorting with curvature, and expands the tube at high imposed tension while constricting it at low tension. Strikingly, at low protein density and tension, protein-rich domains appear along the tube. This peculiar behaviour is due to the shallow intrinsic curvature of I-BAR dimers. It allows constriction of weakly curved membranes coupled to local protein enrichment at biologically relevant conditions. This might explain how IRSp53 contributes in vivo to the initiation of filopodia. The inverted-BAR domain protein IRSp53 associates with the inner leaflet of tubular membranes such as filopodia. Here, Prévost et al. demonstrate that the I-BAR domain of IRSp53 senses negative membrane curvature, and undergoes phase separation which may aid its clustering upon filopodia generation.
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- Coline Prévost
- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.,CNRS, Physico-Chimie Curie, UMR 168, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.,Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.,Université Paris-Diderot, 75205 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.,CNRS, Physico-Chimie Curie, UMR 168, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.,Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- INSERM, U1065, UNSA, Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire, C3M, 06204 Nice Cedex 3, France
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- CNRS, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.,Université Paris-Diderot, 75205 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.,CNRS, Physico-Chimie Curie, UMR 168, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.,Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Rangamani P, Mandadap KK, Oster G. Protein-induced membrane curvature alters local membrane tension. Biophys J 2015; 107:751-762. [PMID: 25099814 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2014] [Revised: 06/01/2014] [Accepted: 06/09/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Adsorption of proteins onto membranes can alter the local membrane curvature. This phenomenon has been observed in biological processes such as endocytosis, tubulation, and vesiculation. However, it is not clear how the local surface properties of the membrane, such as membrane tension, change in response to protein adsorption. In this article, we show that the partial differential equations arising from classical elastic model of lipid membranes, which account for simultaneous changes in shape and membrane tension due to protein adsorption in a local region, cannot be solved for nonaxisymmetric geometries using straightforward numerical techniques; instead, a viscous-elastic formulation is necessary to fully describe the system. Therefore, we develop a viscous-elastic model for inhomogeneous membranes of the Helfrich type. Using the newly available viscous-elastic model, we find that the lipids flow to accommodate changes in membrane curvature during protein adsorption. We show that, at the end of protein adsorption process, the system sustains a residual local tension to balance the difference between the actual mean curvature and the imposed spontaneous curvature. We also show that this change in membrane tension can have a functional impact such as altered response to pulling forces in the presence of proteins.
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- Padmini Rangamani
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California; Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
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Endocytic proteins drive vesicle growth via instability in high membrane tension environment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:E1423-32. [PMID: 25775509 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418491112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is a key pathway for transporting cargo into cells via membrane vesicles; it plays an integral role in nutrient import, signal transduction, neurotransmission, and cellular entry of pathogens and drug-carrying nanoparticles. Because CME entails substantial local remodeling of the plasma membrane, the presence of membrane tension offers resistance to bending and hence, vesicle formation. Experiments show that in such high-tension conditions, actin dynamics is required to carry out CME successfully. In this study, we build on these pioneering experimental studies to provide fundamental mechanistic insights into the roles of two key endocytic proteins-namely, actin and BAR proteins-in driving vesicle formation in high membrane tension environment. Our study reveals an actin force-induced "snap-through instability" that triggers a rapid shape transition from a shallow invagination to a highly invaginated tubular structure. We show that the association of BAR proteins stabilizes vesicles and induces a milder instability. In addition, we present a rather counterintuitive role of BAR depolymerization in regulating the shape evolution of vesicles. We show that the dissociation of BAR proteins, supported by actin-BAR synergy, leads to considerable elongation and squeezing of vesicles. Going beyond the membrane geometry, we put forth a stress-based perspective for the onset of vesicle scission and predict the shapes and composition of detached vesicles. We present the snap-through transition and the high in-plane stress as possible explanations for the intriguing direct transformation of broad and shallow invaginations into detached vesicles in BAR mutant yeast cells.
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Cortesio CL, Lewellyn EB, Drubin DG. Control of lipid organization and actin assembly during clathrin-mediated endocytosis by the cytoplasmic tail of the rhomboid protein Rbd2. Mol Biol Cell 2015; 26:1509-22. [PMID: 25694450 PMCID: PMC4395130 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e14-11-1540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) requires precise regulation of the actin cytoskeleton. The yeast rhomboid protein Rbd2 controls the timing of actin polymerization during CME through its cytoplasmic tail and a PtdIns(4,5)P2-dependent mechanism. Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is facilitated by a precisely regulated burst of actin assembly. PtdIns(4,5)P2 is an important signaling lipid with conserved roles in CME and actin assembly regulation. Rhomboid family multipass transmembrane proteins regulate diverse cellular processes; however, rhomboid-mediated CME regulation has not been described. We report that yeast lacking the rhomboid protein Rbd2 exhibit accelerated endocytic-site dynamics and premature actin assembly during CME through a PtdIns(4,5)P2-dependent mechanism. Combined genetic and biochemical studies showed that the cytoplasmic tail of Rbd2 binds directly to PtdIns(4,5)P2 and is sufficient for Rbd2's role in actin regulation. Analysis of an Rbd2 mutant with diminished PtdIns(4,5)P2-binding capacity indicates that this interaction is necessary for the temporal regulation of actin assembly during CME. The cytoplasmic tail of Rbd2 appears to modulate PtdIns(4,5)P2 distribution on the cell cortex. The syndapin-like F-BAR protein Bzz1 functions in a pathway with Rbd2 to control the timing of type 1 myosin recruitment and actin polymerization onset during CME. This work reveals that the previously unstudied rhomboid protein Rbd2 functions in vivo at the nexus of three highly conserved processes: lipid regulation, endocytic regulation, and cytoskeletal function.
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- Christa L Cortesio
- Department of Molecular- and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular- and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular- and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Guiney EL, Goldman AR, Elias JE, Cyert MS. Calcineurin regulates the yeast synaptojanin Inp53/Sjl3 during membrane stress. Mol Biol Cell 2015; 26:769-85. [PMID: 25518934 PMCID: PMC4325846 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e14-05-1019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2014] [Revised: 12/04/2014] [Accepted: 12/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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During hyperosmotic shock, Saccharomyces cerevisiae adjusts to physiological challenges, including large plasma membrane invaginations generated by rapid cell shrinkage. Calcineurin, the Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent phosphatase, is normally cytosolic but concentrates in puncta and at sites of polarized growth during intense osmotic stress; inhibition of calcineurin-activated gene expression suggests that restricting its access to substrates tunes calcineurin signaling specificity. Hyperosmotic shock promotes calcineurin binding to and dephosphorylation of the PI(4,5)P2 phosphatase synaptojanin/Inp53/Sjl3 and causes dramatic calcineurin-dependent reorganization of PI(4,5)P2-enriched membrane domains. Inp53 normally promotes sorting at the trans-Golgi network but localizes to cortical actin patches in osmotically stressed cells. By activating Inp53, calcineurin repolarizes the actin cytoskeleton and maintains normal plasma membrane morphology in synaptojanin-limited cells. In response to hyperosmotic shock and calcineurin-dependent regulation, Inp53 shifts from associating predominantly with clathrin to interacting with endocytic proteins Sla1, Bzz1, and Bsp1, suggesting that Inp53 mediates stress-specific endocytic events. This response has physiological and molecular similarities to calcineurin-regulated activity-dependent bulk endocytosis in neurons, which retrieves a bolus of plasma membrane deposited by synaptic vesicle fusion. We propose that activation of Ca(2+)/calcineurin and PI(4,5)P2 signaling to regulate endocytosis is a fundamental and conserved response to excess membrane in eukaryotic cells.
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- Evan L Guiney
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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Picco A, Mund M, Ries J, Nédélec F, Kaksonen M. Visualizing the functional architecture of the endocytic machinery. eLife 2015; 4. [PMID: 25675087 PMCID: PMC4357291 DOI: 10.7554/elife.04535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is an essential process that forms vesicles from the plasma membrane. Although most of the protein components of the endocytic protein machinery have been thoroughly characterized, their organization at the endocytic site is poorly understood. We developed a fluorescence microscopy method to track the average positions of yeast endocytic proteins in relation to each other with a time precision below 1 s and with a spatial precision of ∼10 nm. With these data, integrated with shapes of endocytic membrane intermediates and with superresolution imaging, we could visualize the dynamic architecture of the endocytic machinery. We showed how different coat proteins are distributed within the coat structure and how the assembly dynamics of N-BAR proteins relate to membrane shape changes. Moreover, we found that the region of actin polymerization is located at the base of the endocytic invagination, with the growing ends of filaments pointing toward the plasma membrane. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04535.001 Cells take up proteins and other useful material (called cargo) from their external environment through a process known as endocytosis. To start with, the cargo accumulates in a patch on the surface of the cell. On the inner side of the cell's membrane, a protein called clathrin gathers around the patch of cargo. Clathrin molecules and many other proteins bind together to make a lattice-like coat that causes the membrane to curve inwards and form a pocket that contains the cargo. This continues until the cargo is completely surrounded by membrane and eventually forms a bubble-like structure, or ‘vesicle’, that moves into the cell. More than 50 other proteins are involved in the endocytosis. These proteins arrive at the site of endocytosis in a particular order, complete their tasks and then move away to be used in further rounds of endocytosis. It is not clear how these proteins are organized to complete these steps because it is technically difficult to track the movements of many proteins at the same time. Here, Picco et al. developed a new fluorescence microscopy method that enabled them to track the positions of many of the proteins involved in endocytosis in yeast cells in real time. The experiments revealed when the proteins arrived at the site of endocytosis and how they assembled in relation to the membrane. For example, a group of proteins called N-BAR proteins formed an extended lattice covering the sides of the pocket that forms as the membrane curves inwards. To transform the flat membrane into a vesicle, a network of filaments made of a protein called actin needs to form at the site of endocytosis. The new method shows that the actin filaments grow in a small region at the base of the developing vesicle. By combining different types of microscopy data, Picco et al. were able to build a comprehensive model describing when the proteins involved in endocytosis move and assemble. The next challenge will be to understand the physics behind the molecular machine composed of these many proteins and the cell membrane. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04535.002
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- Andrea Picco
- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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Endocytosis, the process whereby the plasma membrane invaginates to form vesicles, is essential for bringing many substances into the cell and for membrane turnover. The mechanism driving clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) involves > 50 different protein components assembling at a single location on the plasma membrane in a temporally ordered and hierarchal pathway. These proteins perform precisely choreographed steps that promote receptor recognition and clustering, membrane remodeling, and force-generating actin-filament assembly and turnover to drive membrane invagination and vesicle scission. Many critical aspects of the CME mechanism are conserved from yeast to mammals and were first elucidated in yeast, demonstrating that it is a powerful system for studying endocytosis. In this review, we describe our current mechanistic understanding of each step in the process of yeast CME, and the essential roles played by actin polymerization at these sites, while providing a historical perspective of how the landscape has changed since the preceding version of the YeastBook was published 17 years ago (1997). Finally, we discuss the key unresolved issues and where future studies might be headed.
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- Bruce L Goode
- Brandeis University, Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Center, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454
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- Brandeis University, Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Center, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454
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- The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biology, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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Crosstalk between PI(4,5)P₂and CK2 modulates actin polymerization during endocytic uptake. Dev Cell 2014; 30:746-58. [PMID: 25268174 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2014] [Revised: 06/13/2014] [Accepted: 07/28/2014] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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A transient burst of actin polymerization assists endocytic budding. How actin polymerization is controlled in this context is not understood. Here, we show that crosstalk between PI(4,5)P₂and the CK2 catalytic subunit Cka2 controls actin polymerization at endocytic sites. We find that phosphorylation of the myosin-I Myo5 by Cka2 downregulates Myo5-induced Arp2/3-dependent actin polymerization, whereas PI(4,5)P₂cooperatively relieves Myo5 autoinhibition and inhibits the catalytic activity of Cka2. Cka2 and the PI(4,5)P₂-5-phosphatases Sjl1 and Sjl2, the yeast synaptojanins, exhibit genetic interactions indicating functional redundancy. The ultrastructural analysis of plasma membrane invaginations in CK2 and synaptojanin mutants demonstrates that both cooperate to initiate constriction of the invagination neck, a process coupled to the remodeling of the endocytic actin network. Our data demonstrate a holoenzyme-independent function of CK2 in endocytic budding and establish a robust genetic, functional, and molecular link between PI(4,5)P₂and CK2, two masters of intracellular signaling.
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Merrifield CJ, Kaksonen M. Endocytic accessory factors and regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2014; 6:a016733. [PMID: 25280766 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Up to 60 different proteins are recruited to the site of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in an ordered sequence. These accessory proteins have roles during all the different stages of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. First, they participate in the initiation of the endocytic event, thereby determining when and where endocytic vesicles are made; later they are involved in the maturation of the clathrin coat, recruitment of specific cargo molecules, bending of the membrane, and finally in scission and uncoating of the nascent vesicle. In addition, many of the accessory components are involved in regulating and coupling the actin cytoskeleton to the endocytic membrane. We will discuss the different accessory components and their various roles. Most of the data comes from studies performed with cultured mammalian cells or yeast cells. The process of endocytosis is well conserved between these different organisms, but there are also many interesting differences that may shed light on the mechanistic principles of endocytosis.
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- Christien J Merrifield
- Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UPR3082, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Encinar del Dedo J, Idrissi FZ, Arnáiz-Pita Y, James M, Dueñas-Santero E, Orellana-Muñoz S, del Rey F, Sirotkin V, Geli MI, Vázquez de Aldana CR. Eng2 is a component of a dynamic protein complex required for endocytic uptake in fission yeast. Traffic 2014; 15:1122-42. [PMID: 25040903 DOI: 10.1111/tra.12198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2013] [Revised: 07/14/2014] [Accepted: 07/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Eng2 is a glucanase required for spore release, although it is also expressed during vegetative growth, suggesting that it might play other cellular functions. Its homology to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Acf2 protein, previously shown to promote actin polymerization at endocytic sites in vitro, prompted us to investigate its role in endocytosis. Interestingly, depletion of Eng2 caused profound defects in endocytic uptake, which were not due to the absence of its glucanase activity. Analysis of the dynamics of endocytic proteins by fluorescence microscopy in the eng2Δ strain unveiled a previously undescribed phenotype, in which assembly of the Arp2/3 complex appeared uncoupled from the internalization of the endocytic coat and resulted in a fission defect. Strikingly also, we found that Eng2-GFP dynamics did not match the pattern of other endocytic proteins. Eng2-GFP localized to bright cytosolic spots that moved around the cellular poles and occasionally contacted assembling endocytic patches just before recruitment of Wsp1, the Schizosaccharomyces pombe WASP. Interestingly, Csh3-YFP, a WASP-interacting protein, interacted with Eng2 by co-immunoprecipitation and was recruited to Eng2 in bright cytosolic spots. Altogether, our work defines a novel endocytic functional module, which probably couples the endocytic coat to the actin module.
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- Javier Encinar del Dedo
- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica, CSIC/Universidad de Salamanca, c/ Zacarías González 2, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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Grassart A, Cheng AT, Hong SH, Zhang F, Zenzer N, Feng Y, Briner DM, Davis GD, Malkov D, Drubin DG. Actin and dynamin2 dynamics and interplay during clathrin-mediated endocytosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 205:721-35. [PMID: 24891602 PMCID: PMC4050722 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201403041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Actin assembly influences the precise temporal and quantitative recruitment of dynamin2 to sites of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) involves the recruitment of numerous proteins to sites on the plasma membrane with prescribed timing to mediate specific stages of the process. However, how choreographed recruitment and function of specific proteins during CME is achieved remains unclear. Using genome editing to express fluorescent fusion proteins at native levels and live-cell imaging with single-molecule sensitivity, we explored dynamin2 stoichiometry, dynamics, and functional interdependency with actin. Our quantitative analyses revealed heterogeneity in the timing of the early phase of CME, with transient recruitment of 2–4 molecules of dynamin2. In contrast, considerable regularity characterized the final 20 s of CME, during which ∼26 molecules of dynamin2, sufficient to make one ring around the vesicle neck, were typically recruited. Actin assembly generally preceded dynamin2 recruitment during the late phases of CME, and promoted dynamin recruitment. Collectively, our results demonstrate precise temporal and quantitative regulation of the dynamin2 recruitment influenced by actin polymerization.
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- Alexandre Grassart
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich Research Biotech, St. Louis, MO 63103
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- Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich Research Biotech, St. Louis, MO 63103
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- Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich Research Biotech, St. Louis, MO 63103
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- Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich Research Biotech, St. Louis, MO 63103
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- Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich Research Biotech, St. Louis, MO 63103
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- Cell-Based Assays/Reporter Cell Lines, Sigma-Aldrich Research Biotech, St. Louis, MO 63103
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Idrissi FZ, Geli MI. Zooming in on the molecular mechanisms of endocytic budding by time-resolved electron microscopy. Cell Mol Life Sci 2014; 71:641-57. [PMID: 24002236 PMCID: PMC11113444 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-013-1452-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2013] [Revised: 07/17/2013] [Accepted: 08/08/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Endocytic budding implies the remodeling of a plasma membrane portion from a flat sheet to a closed vesicle. Clathrin- and actin-mediated endocytosis in yeast has proven a very powerful model to study this process, with more than 60 evolutionarily conserved proteins involved in fashioning primary endocytic vesicles. Major progress in the field has been made during the last decades by defining the sequential recruitment of the endocytic machinery at the cell cortex using live-cell fluorescence microscopy. Higher spatial resolution has been recently achieved by developing time-resolved electron microscopy methods, allowing for the first time the visualization of changes in the plasma membrane shape, coupled to the dynamics of the endocytic machinery. Here, we highlight these advances and review recent findings from yeast and mammals that have increased our understanding of where and how endocytic proteins may apply force to remodel the plasma membrane during different stages of the process.
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- Fatima-Zahra Idrissi
- Department of Cell Biology, Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona (CSIC), Baldiri i Reixac 15, 08028, Barcelona, Spain,
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Yeast and other walled cells possess high internal turgor pressure that allows them to grow and survive in the environment. This turgor pressure, however, may oppose the invagination of the plasma membrane needed for endocytosis. Here we study the effects of turgor pressure on endocytosis in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe by time-lapse imaging of individual endocytic sites. Decreasing effective turgor pressure by addition of sorbitol to the media significantly accelerates early steps in the endocytic process before actin assembly and membrane ingression but does not affect the velocity or depth of ingression of the endocytic pit in wild-type cells. Sorbitol also rescues endocytic ingression defects of certain endocytic mutants and of cells treated with a low dose of the actin inhibitor latrunculin A. Endocytosis proceeds after removal of the cell wall, suggesting that the cell wall does not contribute mechanically to this process. These studies suggest that endocytosis is governed by a mechanical balance between local actin-dependent inward forces and opposing forces from high internal turgor pressure on the plasma membrane.
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- Roshni Basu
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032
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Linear aggregation of proteins on the membrane as a prelude to membrane remodeling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:20396-401. [PMID: 24284177 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309819110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Adhesion and insertion of curvature-mediating proteins can induce dramatic structural changes in cell membranes, allowing them to participate in several key cellular tasks. The way proteins interact to generate curvature remains largely unclear, especially at early stages of membrane remodeling. Using a coarse-grained model of Bin/amphiphysin/Rvs domain with an N-terminal helix (N-BAR) interacting with flat membranes and vesicles, we demonstrate that at low protein surface densities, binding of N-BAR domain proteins to the membrane is followed by a linear aggregation and the formation of meshes on the surface. In this process, the proteins assemble at the base of emerging membrane buds. Our work shows that beyond a more straightforward scaffolding mechanism at high bound densities, the interplay of anisotropic interactions and the local stress imposed by the N-BAR proteins results in deep invaginations and endocytic vesicular bud-like deformations, an order of magnitude larger than the size of the individual protein. Our results imply that by virtue of this mechanism, cell membranes may achieve rapid local increases in protein concentration.
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Zhao H, Michelot A, Koskela EV, Tkach V, Stamou D, Drubin DG, Lappalainen P. Membrane-sculpting BAR domains generate stable lipid microdomains. Cell Rep 2013; 4:1213-23. [PMID: 24055060 PMCID: PMC4105227 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.08.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2013] [Revised: 06/28/2013] [Accepted: 08/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs (BAR) domain proteins are central regulators of many cellular processes involving membrane dynamics. BAR domains sculpt phosphoinositide-rich membranes to generate membrane protrusions or invaginations. Here, we report that, in addition to regulating membrane geometry, BAR domains can generate extremely stable lipid microdomains by "freezing" phosphoinositide dynamics. This is a general feature of BAR domains, because the yeast endocytic BAR and Fes/CIP4 homology BAR (F-BAR) domains, the inverse BAR domain of Pinkbar, and the eisosomal BAR protein Lsp1 induced phosphoinositide clustering and halted lipid diffusion, despite differences in mechanisms of membrane interactions. Lsp1 displays comparable low diffusion rates in vitro and in vivo, suggesting that BAR domain proteins also generate stable phosphoinositide microdomains in cells. These results uncover a conserved role for BAR superfamily proteins in regulating lipid dynamics within membranes. Stable microdomains induced by BAR domain scaffolds and specific lipids can generate phase boundaries and diffusion barriers, which may have profound impacts on diverse cellular processes.
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- Hongxia Zhao
- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3202, USA
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Bio-Nanotechnology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lundbeck Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Bio-Nanotechnology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lundbeck Foundation Center Biomembranes in Nanomedicine, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3202, USA
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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