title: Loss of endocytic clathrin-coated pits upon acute depletion of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate.
abstract: Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PI(4,5)P(2)], a phosphoinositide concentrated predominantly in the plasma membrane, binds endocytic clathrin adaptors, many of their accessory factors, and a variety of actin-regulatory proteins. Here we have used fluorescent fusion proteins and total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to investigate the effect of acute PI(4,5)P(2) breakdown on the dynamics of endocytic clathrin-coated pit components and of the actin regulatory complex, Arp2/3. PI(4,5)P(2) breakdown was achieved by the inducible recruitment to the plasma membrane of an inositol 5-phosphatase module through the rapamycin/FRB/FKBP system or by treatment with ionomycin. PI(4,5)P(2) depletion resulted in a dramatic loss of clathrin puncta, which correlated with a massive dissociation of endocytic adaptors from the plasma membrane. Remaining clathrin spots at the cell surface had only weak fluorescence and were static over time. Dynamin and the p20 subunit of the Arp2/3 actin regulatory complex, which were concentrated at late-stage clathrin-coated pits and in lamellipodia, also dissociated from the plasma membrane, and these changes correlated with an arrest of motility at the cell edge. These findings demonstrate the critical importance of PI(4,5)P(2) in clathrin coat dynamics and Arp2/3-dependent actin regulation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Kavli Institute For Neuroscience and Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zoncu
authors.forename: Rushika M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Perera
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sebastian
authors.forename: Fubito
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nakatsu
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Tamas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Balla
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ayala
authors.forename: Derek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Toomre
authors.forename: Pietro V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: De Camilli
mesh_terms: D051377:Actin-Related Protein 2 / Q000378:metabolism; D051378:Actin-Related Protein 3 / Q000378:metabolism; D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism; D033942:Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D019556:COS Cells; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D022163:Clathrin-Coated Vesicles / Q000378:metabolism*; D034281:Dynamins / Q000378:metabolism; D004705:Endocytosis; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D019269:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate / Q000378:metabolism*; D020123:Sirolimus / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D051377:Actin-Related Protein 2; D051378:Actin-Related Protein 3; D000199:Actins; D033942:Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport; D019269:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate; C114154:epsin; D034281:Dynamins; D020123:Sirolimus