Clathrin-coated pits with long, dynamin-wrapped necks upon expression of a clathrin antisense RNA

AUTOR(ES)

Iversen, T.-G.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

To investigate the role of clathrin in coated vesicle formation, a cell line with inducible expression of clathrin heavy chain (CHC) antisense RNA was produced. After 18 h of CHC antisense RNA expression, the internalization of transferrin was inhibited by 90%. Although the amount of CHC was reduced by only 10%, the frequency of clathrin-coated pits at the cell surface increased by a factor of 3–5, and clathrin-coated structures also accumulated on a pleiomorphic, multivesicular, endosomal compartment. Remarkably, the coated pits were connected to the cell surface by long, tubular necks wrapped by dynamin rings, and the level of dynamin in the CHC antisense RNA-expressing cells was up-regulated 10-fold. In contrast, the amount of several other proteins associated with clathrin coat formation was unaffected. Thus, this study demonstrates that CHC antisense RNA causes accumulation of clathrin-coated pits with dynamin rings around the neck in intact cells not transfected with dynamin mutants, suggesting the existence of a previously uncharacterized functional interplay between clathrin and dynamin.

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