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Gtpase cycle of dynamin is coupled to membrane squeeze and release, leading to spontaneous fission

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authors

  • Bashkirov, P. V.
  • Akimov, S. A.
  • Evseev, A. I.
  • Schmid, Sandra
  • Zimmerberg, J.
  • Frolov, V. A.

publication date

  • December 2008

journal

  • Cell  Journal

abstract

  • The GTPase dynamin is critically involved in membrane fission during endocytosis. How does dynamin use the energy of GTP hydrolysis for membrane remodeling? By monitoring the ionic permeability through lipid nanotubes (NT), we found that dynamin was capable of squeezing NT to extremely small radii, depending on the NT lipid composition. However, long dynamin scaffolds did not produce fission: instead, fission followed GTPase-dependent cycles of assembly and disassembly of short dynamin scaffolds and involved a stochastic process dependent on the curvature stress imposed by dynamin. Fission happened spontaneously upon NT release from the scaffold, without leakage. Our calculations revealed that local narrowing of NT could induce cooperative lipid tilting, leading to self-merger of the inner monolayer of NT (hemifission), consistent with the absence of leakage. We propose that dynamin transmits GTP's energy to periodic assembling of a limited curvature scaffold that brings lipids to an unstable intermediate.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Cell Membrane
  • Dynamins
  • Endocytosis
  • Guanosine Triphosphate
  • Intracellular Membranes
  • Lipid Bilayers
  • Lipid Metabolism
  • Models, Biological
  • Nanotubes
  • Nucleotides
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2768395

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0092-8674

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.cell.2008.11.028

PubMed ID

  • 19084269
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 1276

end page

  • 1286

volume

  • 135

issue

  • 7

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