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ArticleMolecular biology of the cell2010

Quantitative analysis of the mechanism of endocytic actin patch assembly and disassembly in fission yeast.

Vladimir Sirotkin, Julien Berro, Keely Macmillan, Lindsey Zhao, Thomas D Pollard

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Article in Molecular biology of the cell, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers.

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113citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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113 citing papers in PubMed, 184 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Structure of Arp2/3 complex at a branched actin filament junction resolved by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Vladimir SirotkinDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA.
Julien Berro
Keely Macmillan
Lindsey Zhao
Thomas D Pollard
Institut thématique Génétique, génomique et bioinformatique · FRUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRYale University · US

Funding

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF CELLULAR MOTILITYR01GM026338 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI POLLARD, THOMAS D. · 1985 to 2020
$9.8M
Mechanism of cytokinesis in fission yeastR01GM026132 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI POLLARD, THOMAS D. · 1985 to 2021
$8.8M
ACTIN-MYOSIN INTERACTIONS IN CELL MOTILITYR37GM026132 · NIGMS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI POLLARD, THOMAS D. · 1988 to 1997
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NIGMS NIH HHS GM-0026338NIGMS NIH HHS GM-026132NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM026132NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM026338NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM026132
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We used quantitative confocal microscopy to measure the numbers of 16 proteins tagged with fluorescent proteins during assembly and disassembly of endocytic actin patches in fission yeast. The peak numbers of each molecule that accumulate in patches varied <30-50% between individual patches. The pathway begins with accumulation of 30-40 clathrin molecules, sufficient to build a hemisphere at the tip of a plasma membrane invagination. Thereafter precisely timed waves of proteins reach characteristic peak numbers: endocytic adaptor proteins (approximately 120 End4p and approximately 230 Pan1p), activators of Arp2/3 complex (approximately 200 Wsp1p and approximately 340 Myo1p) and approximately 300 Arp2/3 complexes just ahead of a burst of actin assembly into short, capped and highly cross-linked filaments (approximately 7000 actins, approximately 200 capping proteins, and approximately 900 fimbrins). Coronin arrives last as all other components disperse upon patch internalization and movement over approximately 10 s. Patch internalization occurs without recruitment of dynamins. Mathematical modeling, described in the accompanying paper (Berro et al., 2010, MBoC 21: 2803-2813), shows that the dendritic nucleation hypothesis can account for the time course of actin assembly into a branched network of several hundred filaments 100-200 nm long and that patch disassembly requires actin filament fragmentation in addition to depolymerization from the ends.

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EndocytosisActin-Related Protein 2-3 ComplexActinsClathrinLuminescent ProteinsMicrofilament ProteinsMicroscopy, FluorescenceModels, BiologicalProtein BindingSchizosaccharomycesSchizosaccharomyces pombe ProteinsTime FactorsActin-Related Protein 2-3 ComplexActinsClathrinEnd4 protein, S pombeLuminescent ProteinsMicrofilament ProteinsSchizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins

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PMID20587778
PMCPMC2921122
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