Overlapping role of dynamin isoforms in synaptic vesicle endocytosis.

Department of Cell Biology, HHMI, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair and Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.

Neuron 2011 Jun 23

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The existence of neuron-specific endocytic protein isoforms raises questions about their importance for specialized neuronal functions. Dynamin, a GTPase implicated in the fission reaction of endocytosis, is encoded by three genes, two of which, dynamin 1 and 3, are highly expressed in neurons. We show that dynamin 3, thought to play a predominantly postsynaptic role, has a major presynaptic function. Although lack of dynamin 3 does not produce an overt phenotype in mice, it worsens the dynamin 1 KO phenotype, leading to perinatal lethality and a more severe defect in activity-dependent synaptic vesicle endocytosis. Thus, dynamin 1 and 3, which together account for the overwhelming majority of brain dynamin, cooperate in supporting optimal rates of synaptic vesicle endocytosis. Persistence of synaptic transmission in their absence indicates that if dynamin plays essential functions in neurons, such functions can be achieved by the very low levels of dynamin 2. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Andrea Raimondi, Shawn M Ferguson, Xuelin Lou, Moritz Armbruster, Summer Paradise, Silvia Giovedi, Mirko Messa, Nao Kono, Junko Takasaki, Valentina Cappello, Eileen O'Toole, Timothy A Ryan, Pietro De Camilli. Overlapping role of dynamin isoforms in synaptic vesicle endocytosis. Neuron. 2011 Jun 23;70(6):1100-14