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First published online 9 December 2008
doi: 10.1242/jcs.036673

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Rolling blackout is required for bulk endocytosis in non-neuronal cells and neuronal synapses

Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA

^* Author for correspondence (e-mail: kendal.broadie{at}vanderbilt.edu)

Accepted 2 October 2008

Rolling blackout (RBO) is a Drosophila EFR3 integral membrane lipase. A conditional temperature-sensitive (TS) mutant (rbo^ts) displays paralysis within minutes following a temperature shift from 25°C to 37°C, an impairment previously attributed solely to blocked synaptic-vesicle exocytosis. However, we found that rbo^ts displays a strong synergistic interaction with the Syntaxin-1A TS allele syx^3-69, recently shown to be a dominant positive mutant that increases Syntaxin-1A function. At neuromuscular synapses, rbo^ts showed a strong defect in styryl-FM-dye (FM) endocytosis, and rbo^ts;syx^3-69 double mutants displayed a synergistic, more severe, endocytosis impairment. Similarly, central rbo^ts synapses in primary brain culture showed severely defective FM endocytosis. Non-neuronal nephrocyte Garland cells showed the same endocytosis defect in tracer-uptake assays. Ultrastructurally, rbo^ts displayed a specific defect in tracer uptake into endosomes in both neuronal and non-neuronal cells. At the rbo^ts synapse, there was a total blockade of endosome formation via activity-dependent bulk endocytosis. Clathrin-mediated endocytosis was not affected; indeed, there was a significant increase in direct vesicle formation. Together, these results demonstrate that RBO is required for constitutive and/or bulk endocytosis and/or macropinocytosis in both neuronal and non-neuronal cells, and that, at the synapse, this mechanism is responsive to the rate of Syntaxin-1A-dependent exocytosis.

Key words: Syntaxin, Shibire, Synaptic vesicle, Endosome, Neuromuscular junction, Garland cell, Primary neuron culture

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