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ArticleeLife2022

Recruitment of clathrin to intracellular membranes is sufficient for vesicle formation.

Cansu Küey, Méghane Sittewelle, Gabrielle Larocque, Miguel Hernández-González, Stephen J Royle

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Article in eLife, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cansu KüeyCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7992-3523
Méghane SittewelleCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9383-6653
Gabrielle LarocqueCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8295-9378
Miguel Hernández-GonzálezCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5562-7076
Stephen J RoyleCentre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology and Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8927-6967
University of Cambridge · GBThe Francis Crick Institute · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/P018947/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The formation of a clathrin-coated vesicle (CCV) is a major membrane remodeling process that is crucial for membrane traffic in cells. Besides clathrin, these vesicles contain at least 100 different proteins although it is unclear how many are essential for the formation of the vesicle. Here, we show that intracellular clathrin-coated formation can be induced in living cells using minimal machinery and that it can be achieved on various membranes, including the mitochondrial outer membrane. Chemical heterodimerization was used to inducibly attach a clathrin-binding fragment 'hook' to an 'anchor' protein targeted to a specific membrane. Endogenous clathrin assembled to form coated pits on the mitochondria, termed MitoPits, within seconds of induction. MitoPits are double-membraned invaginations that form preferentially on high curvature regions of the mitochondrion. Upon induction, all stages of CCV formation - initiation, invagination, and even fission - were faithfully reconstituted. We found no evidence for the functional involvement of accessory proteins in this process. In addition, fission of MitoPit-derived vesicles was independent of known scission factors including dynamins and dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1), suggesting that the clathrin cage generates sufficient force to bud intracellular vesicles. Our results suggest that, following its recruitment, clathrin is sufficient for intracellular CCV formation.

Indexed as

ClathrinCoated Pits, Cell-MembraneCell MembraneClathrin-Coated VesiclesDynaminsEndocytosisIntracellular MembranesClathrinDynaminscell biologyclathrin-coated vesicleendocytosishumanintracellular traffickingpinchase

Identifiers

PMID35852853
PMCPMC9337851
OpenAlexW4285794434

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