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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 18.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1847:65–82. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8719-1_6

Table 1.

List of reagents used to acutely perturb CME at synapses and their effects. Details of their effects on synaptic morphology and function, as well as control reagents, are described in the references.

STAGE OF
CME
AFFECTED
REAGENT BIOCHEMICAL
ACTIONS
SEQUENCE REFS
CLATHRIN ASSEMBLY AP2 peptide Binds clathrin N-terminal domain and inhibits clathrin assembly in vitro and in vivo QGDLLGDLLNLDLGPPVNVPQ Morgan et al., 2000; Zhou et al., 2015;Fig. 3
AP180 peptide Inhibits clathrin assembly in vitro and in vivo SGGATAWGDLLGEDSLAALSS Morgan et al., 2000
Pitstop 1 Inhibits ligand interactions with clathrin N-terminal domain n.a. von Kleist et al., 2011
CLATHRIN COAT MATURATION Endophilin Antibody Inhibits CME and vesicle recycling in vivo; build up of shallow CCPs Antibody raised against a peptide corresponding to a.a. 255-274 of rat endophilin (YQPKPRMSLEFATGDGTQPN) Ringstad et al., 1999
Actin Toxins (Phalloidin, Bot C2; Lat B, Swinholide) Inhibit actin dynamics in vivo n.a. Bourne et al., 2006; Shupliakov et al., 2002
PIP kinase peptide Inhibits actin polymerization in vivo TDERSWVYSPLHYS Morgan et al., 2004
CONSTRICTION & FISSION Dynamin peptide Inhibits dynamin-amphiphysin SH3 interaction PPPQVPSRPNRAPPG Shupliakov et al., 1997
Amphiphysin SH3 domain Binds dynamin in vitro and prevents recruitment to CCP GST-tagged SH3 domain of human amphiphysin (a.a. 623-694) Shupliakov et al., 1997
FISSION & UNCOATING Synaptojanin peptide Inhibits endophilin interactions with dynamin and synaptojanin in vitro VAPPARPAPPQRPPPPSGA Gad et al., 2000
Auxilin ΔHPD mutant Inhibits Hsc70-auxilin interaction and clathrin uncoating in vitro Recombinant bovine auxilin truncation (a.a. 547-910) with mutated HPD motif (a.a. 874-876) Morgan et al., 2001
α-Synuclein Binds Hsc70 Recombinant full-length human α-synuclein (a.a. 1-140) Banks et al., 2015