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Mol. Biol. Cell 10.1091/mbc.E07-11-1115

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Submitted on November 7, 2007
Revised on March 4, 2008
Accepted on April 16, 2008

Essential Role of GAK (auxilin-2) in Developing and Mature Mice

Dong-won Lee, Xiaohong Zhao, Yang-In Yim, Evan Eisenberg, and Lois E. Greene

Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0301

Monitoring Editor: Robert Parton

Hsc70 with its cochaperone, either auxilin or GAK, not only uncoats clathrin-coated vesicles but also acts as a chaperone during clathrin-mediated endocytosis. However, since synaptojanin is also involved in uncoating, it is not clear whether GAK is an essential gene. To answer this question, GAK conditional knockout mice were generated and then mated to mice expressing Cre recombinase under the control of the nestin, albumin, or keratin-14 promoters all of which turn on during embryonic development. Deletion of GAK from brain, liver or skin dramatically altered the histology of these tissues causing the mice to die shortly after birth. Furthermore, by using a tamoxifen-inducible promoter to express Cre recombinase we showed that deletion of GAK caused lethality in adult mice. Mouse embryonic fibroblasts in which the GAK was disrupted showed a lack of clathrin-coated pits and a complete block in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. We conclude that GAK deletion blocks development and causes lethality in adult animals by disrupting clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

Address correspondence to: Lois E. Greene (greenel{at}helix.nih.gov)






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