Clathrin coat controls synaptic vesicle acidification by blocking vacuolar ATPase activity
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
- European Neuroscience Institute (ENI), Germany
- Sciloop, Germany
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
- University of Texas Health Science Center, United States
- Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden
Abstract
Newly-formed synaptic vesicles (SVs) are rapidly acidified by vacuolar adenosine triphosphatases (vATPases), generating a proton electrochemical gradient that drives neurotransmitter loading. Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is needed for the formation of new SVs, yet it is unclear when endocytosed vesicles acidify and refill at the synapse. Here, we isolated clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs) from mouse brain to measure their acidification directly at the single vesicle level. We observed that the ATP-induced acidification of CCVs was strikingly reduced in comparison to SVs. Remarkably, when the coat was removed from CCVs, uncoated vesicles regained ATP-dependent acidification, demonstrating that CCVs contain the functional vATPase, yet its function is inhibited by the clathrin coat. Considering the known structures of the vATPase and clathrin coat, we propose a model in which the formation of the coat surrounds the vATPase and blocks its activity. Such inhibition is likely fundamental for the proper timing of SV refilling.
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The structure has been deposited with the EMDB-ID #4335.For additional information considering structure please contact Prof Dr Carsten Mim at carsten.mim@ki.se
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Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Emmy Noether Young Investigator Award MI-1702/1)
- Ira Milosevic
Human Frontier Science Program (Young Investigator Grant RGY0074/16)
- Carsten Mim
Schram Stiftung (T287/25457)
- Ira Milosevic
Engelhorn Stiftung (Postdoc fellowship)
- Zohreh Farsi
Synaptic System PhD fellowship (PhD fellowship)
- Sindhuja Gowrisankaran
National Institutes of Health (GM118933)
- Eileen M Lafer
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Reviewing Editor
- Margaret S. Robinson, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ethics
Animal experimentation: Animal experiments were conducted according to the European Guidelines for animal welfare (2010/63/EU) with approval by the Lower Saxony Landesamt fur Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (LAVES), registration number 14/1701.
Version history
- Received: October 6, 2017
- Accepted: April 7, 2018
- Accepted Manuscript published: April 13, 2018 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: May 4, 2018 (version 2)
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© 2018, Farsi et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Clathrin coat controls synaptic vesicle acidification by blocking vacuolar ATPase activity
eLife 7:e32569.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32569
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