GTP and lipids control self-assembly and functional promiscuity of Dynamin2 molecular machinery

Espadas, J.; Membrane Nanomechanics,; Bocanegra, R.; Machanisms of Cellular Membrane Remodelling,; Martinez-Galvez, J. M.; Molecular Motors Manipulation Lab,; Largo, E.; Banos-Mateos, S.; Arrasate, P.; Ormaetxea-Guisasola, J.; Velasco-Olmo, A.; Vera Lillo, J.; Ibarra, B.; Shnyrova, A. V.; Frolov, V. A.

doi:10.1101/2021.03.15.435402

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GTP and lipids control self-assembly and functional promiscuity of Dynamin2 molecular machinery

Espadas, J.·Membrane Nanomechanics,·Bocanegra, R.·Machanisms of Cellular Membrane Remodelling,·Martinez-Galvez, J. M.·Molecular Motors Manipulation Lab,·Largo, E.·Banos-Mateos, S.·Arrasate, P.·Ormaetxea-Guisasola, J.·Velasco-Olmo, A.·Vera Lillo, J.·Ibarra, B.·Shnyrova, A. V.·Frolov, V. A.

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Dynamin2 GTPase (Dyn2) is a crucial player in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Dyn2 is tetrameric in cytoplasm and self-assembles into functional units upon membrane binding. How the curvature activities and functionality of Dyn2 emerge during self-assembly and are regulated by lipids remains unknown. Here we reconstituted the Dyn2 self-assembly process using membrane nanotubes (NT) and vesicles and characterized it using single- molecule fluorescence microscopy, optical tweezers force spectroscopy and cryo-electron microscopy. On NTs, Dyn2 first forms small subhelical oligomers, which are already curvature active and display pronounced curvature sensing properties. Conical lipids and GTP promote their further self-assembly into helical machinery mediating the NT scission. In the presence of large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs), an alternative self- assembly pathway emerges where the subhelical oligomers form membrane tethering complexes mediating LUV-NT binding. Reconstitution of tethering in the LUV system revealed that lipid mixing is controlled by conical lipid species, divalents, GTP, and SH3 binding partners of Dyn2. In membranes with a high content of lipids with negative intrinsic curvature, cryo-EM revealed putative membrane contact sites made by Dyn2 clusters. On such membranes, with GTP lowered to 0.2 mM, both membrane fission and tethering activities become possible, indicating functional promiscuity of Dyn2. We conclude that GTP and lipids control both extent and topology of Dyn2 functional self-assembly. The function of Dyn2 oligomers evolves from curvature sensing, seen in subhelical Dyn2 oligomers, to curvature creation and fission, seen in Dyn2 helices. Under specific circumstances, such as downregulation of SH3 partners of Dyn2 and GTP depletion, membrane tethering activity can emerge in membrane systems enriched with conical lipids. Hence the Dyn2 functionality is actively adapted to lipidome, explaining its large habitat in the cells and tissues.

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Espadas, J., Membrane Nanomechanics,, Bocanegra, R., Machanisms of Cellular Membrane Remodelling,, Martinez-Galvez, J. M., Molecular Motors Manipulation Lab,, Largo, E., Banos-Mateos, S., Arrasate, P., Ormaetxea-Guisasola, J., Velasco-Olmo, A., Vera Lillo, J., Ibarra, B., Shnyrova, A. V., Frolov, V. A.. 2021-03-16. GTP and lipids control self-assembly and functional promiscuity of Dynamin2 molecular machinery. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.15.435402

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