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SUBMITTER: Gu C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2982766 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gu Changkyu C Yaddanapudi Suma S Weins Astrid A Osborn Teresia T Reiser Jochen J Pollak Martin M Hartwig John J Sever Sanja S
The EMBO journal 20101008 21
The large GTPase dynamin assembles into higher order structures that are thought to promote endocytosis. Dynamin also regulates the actin cytoskeleton through an unknown, GTPase-dependent mechanism. Here, we identify a highly conserved site in dynamin that binds directly to actin filaments and aligns them into bundles. Point mutations in the actin-binding domain cause aberrant membrane ruffling and defective actin stress fibre formation in cells. Short actin filaments promote dynamin assembly in ...[more]