title: Enzymatic dissociation of clathrin cages in a two-stage process.
abstract: Uncoating ATPase catalyzes the ATP-dependent dissociation of clathrin from coated vesicles and empty cages. Following an uncoating reaction, clathrin triskelions are released intact, in a stoichiometric complex with bound uncoating protein. This overall uncoating process was dissected into two partial reactions. In the first, ATP hydrolysis drives the transient displacement of a portion of a triskelion from a cage. Uncoating protein then captures the displaced triskelion, in the second stage, by binding to a newly exposed site on clathrin that had previously been buried in the cage lattice. Triskelion-uncoating protein complexes are released when all points of attachment of the triskelion to the cage have been severed. The uncoating protein interacts with a distinct site on clathrin for each of these reactions.
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Rothman
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002417:Cattle; D002966:Clathrin / Q000378:metabolism*; D003034:Coated Pits, Cell-Membrane / Q000201:enzymology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D011992:Endosomes / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D007700:Kinetics; D008954:Models, Biological
chemical_list: D002966:Clathrin; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases