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CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 13, 期 8, 页码 659-663出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00241-0
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA 87567] Funding Source: Medline
- Telethon [E.0841] Funding Source: Medline
Synaptojanin 2 is a ubiquitously expressed polyphosphoinositide phosphatase that displays a high degree of homology in its catalytic domains with synaptojanin 1 [1, 2]. Neurons of synaptojanin 1-deficient mice display an increase in clathrin-coated vesicles and delayed reentry of recycling vesicles into the fusion-competent vesicle pool, but no defects in early steps of endocytosis [3, 4]. Here we show that inhibition of synaptojanin 2 expression via small interfering (si) RNA causes a strong defect in clathrin-mediated receptor internalization in a lung carcinoma cell line. This inhibitory phenotype is rescued by overexpression of wildtype synaptojanin 2, but not of wild-type synaptojanin I or mutant synaptojanin 2 that is deficient in 5'-phosphatase activity. In addition, electron-microscopic analysis shows that synaptojanin 2 depletion causes a decrease in clathrin-coated pits and vesicles. These results suggest a role for synaptojanin 2 in clathrin-coated pit formation and imply that lipid hydrolysis is required at an early stage of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Taken together, our results also indicate that synaptojanin 2 is functionally distinct from synaptojanin 1.
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