Coupling between clathrin-coated-pit invagination, cortactin recruitment, and membrane scission observed in live cells.

Christien J. Merrifield, David Perrais, David Zenisek
Cell. 2005-05-01; 121(4): 593-606
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.03.015

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1. Cell. 2005 May 20;121(4):593-606. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.03.015.

Coupling between clathrin-coated-pit invagination, cortactin recruitment, and
membrane scission observed in live cells.

Merrifield CJ(1), Perrais D(2), Zenisek D(3).

Author information:
(1)MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, United
Kingdom. Electronic address: .
(2)Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire de la Synapse, CNRS UMR 5091 et
Université Bordeaux 2, Institut François Magendie, 1 rue Camille Saint Saëns,
33077 Bordeaux Cedex, France.
(3)Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of
Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520.

During clathrin-mediated endocytosis, membrane scission marks the isolation of a
cargo-laden clathrin-coated pit (CCP) from the cell exterior. Here we used
live-cell imaging of a pH-sensitive cargo to visualize the formation of
clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs) at single CCPs with a time resolution of seconds.
We show that CCPs are highly dynamic and can produce multiple vesicles in
succession. Using alternating evanescent field and epifluorescence illumination,
we show that CCP invagination and scission are tightly coupled, with scission
coinciding with maximal displacement of CCPs from the plasma membrane and with
peak recruitment of cortactin-DsRed, a dynamin and F-actin binding protein.
Finally, perturbing actin polymerization with latrunculin-B drastically reduces
the efficiency of membrane scission and affects many aspects of CCP dynamics. We
propose that CCP invagination, actin polymerization, and CCV formation are highly
coordinated for efficient endocytosis.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.03.015
PMID: 15907472 [Indexed for MEDLINE]

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