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ACTA BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA SINICA
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 95-103Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7270.2006.00141.x
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cortactin; dynamin; actin polymerization; endocytosis
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Cortactin, an actin-binding protein and a substrate of Src, is encoded by the EMS1 oncogene. Cortactin is known to activate Arp2/3 complex-mediated actin polymerization and interact with dynamin, a large GTPase and proline rich domain-containing protein. Transferrin endocytosis was significantly reduced in cells by knock-down of cortactin expression as well as in vivo introduction of cortactin immunoreagents. Cortactin-dynamin interaction displayed morphologically dynamic co-distribution with a change in the endocytosis level in cells treated with an actin depolymerization reagent, cytochalasin D. In an in vitro beads assay, a branched actin network was recruited onto dynamin-coated beads in a cortactin Src homology domain 3 (SH3)-dependent manner. In addition, cortactin was found to function in the late stage of clathrin coated vesicle formation. Taken together, cortactin is required for optimal clathrin mediated endocytosis in a dynamin directed manner.
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