Abstract
The recycling to the cell surface of previously internalized coated pits has been proposed as a likely mechanism for the rapid regeneration of coated pits on human fibroblast surfaces at 37°C (1). We present a general mathematical model of coated pit recycling for the case when the coat cycles as a single unit, and use it to analyze certain time and temperature dependent data obtained by Anderson et al. (1) and Vermeer et al. (2). We show how recycling can account for these data and how this type of data can be used to distinguish between different possible recycling mechanisms. We show that these data are inconsistent with a two compartment model where coat material simply shuttles back and forth between coated pits and short-lived coated vesicles. From these data we estimate for human fibroblasts at 37°C: that the time for a coated pit to be replenished through recycling after it is lost through internalization is greater than 3.5 min; and that at any moment 53% or less of the cell’s clathrin that is involved in coated pit recycling is on the cell surface.
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Goldstein, B., Wofsy, C. Analysis of coated pit recycling on human fibroblasts. Cell Biochem Biophys 3, 251–277 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782627
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