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EMBO REPORTS
Volume 2, Issue 7, Pages 634-640Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kve134
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Synaptic vesicle biogenesis involves the recycling of synaptic vesicle components by clathrin-mediated endocytosis from the presynaptic membrane, stoned 8, a protein encoded by the stoned locus in Drosophila melanogaster has been shown to regulate vesicle recycling by interacting with synaptotagmin. We report here the identification and characterization of a human homolog of stoned 8 (hStnB). Human stoned B is a brain-specific protein which co-enriches with other endocytic proteins such as AP-2 in a crude synaptic vesicle fraction and at nerve terminals. A domain with homology to the medium chain of adaptor complexes binds directly to both AP-2 and synaptotagmin and competes with AP-2 for the same binding site within synaptotagmin. Finally we show that the mu2 homology domain of hStnB stimulates the uncoating of both clathrin and AP-2 adaptors from clathrin-coated vesicles. We hypothesize that hStnB regulates synaptic vesicle recycling by facilitating vesicle uncoating.
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