Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Mitochondrial uncouplers inhibit clathrin-mediated endocytosis largely through cytoplasmic acidification

  • Wim Dejonghe,
  • Sabine Kuenen,
  • Evelien Mylle,
  • Mina Vasileva,
  • Olivier Keech,
  • Corrado Viotti,
  • Jef Swerts,
  • Matyáš Fendrych,
  • Fausto Andres Ortiz-Morea,
  • Kiril Mishev,
  • Simon Delang,
  • Stefan Scholl,
  • Xavier Zarza,
  • Mareike Heilmann,
  • Jiorgos Kourelis,
  • Jaroslaw Kasprowicz,
  • Le Son Long Nguyen,
  • Andrzej Drozdzecki,
  • Isabelle Van Houtte,
  • Anna-Mária Szatmári,
  • Mateusz Majda,
  • Gary Baisa,
  • Sebastian York Bednarek,
  • Stéphanie Robert,
  • Dominique Audenaert,
  • Christa Testerink,
  • Teun Munnik,
  • Daniël Van Damme,
  • Ingo Heilmann,
  • Karin Schumacher,
  • Johan Winne,
  • Jiří Friml,
  • Patrik Verstreken,
  • Eugenia Russinova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11710
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Plant cells maintain strict proton gradients over different membranes. Here, Dejonghe et al. show that several protonophores, including the known tyrosine kinase inhibitor TyrphostinA23, inhibit clathrin-mediated endocytosis by disturbing these gradients and causing cytoplasmic acidification.