Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Lipid-mediated PX-BAR domain recruitment couples local membrane constriction to endocytic vesicle fission

  • Johannes Schöneberg,
  • Martin Lehmann,
  • Alexander Ullrich,
  • York Posor,
  • Wen-Ting Lo,
  • Gregor Lichtner,
  • Jan Schmoranzer,
  • Volker Haucke,
  • Frank Noé

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15873
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The spatiotemporal regulation of membrane scaffolds recruitment and coupling between membrane deformation and fission in endocytosis are unclear. Here the authors show that lipid conversion at endocytic pits recruits SNX9, which couples local membrane constriction to fission in endocytosis.