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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

EHD2-mediated restriction of caveolar dynamics regulates cellular fatty acid uptake.

Claudia Matthaeus, Ines Lahmann, Séverine Kunz, Wenke Jonas, Arthur Alves Melo, Martin Lehmann, Elin Larsson, Richard Lundmark, Matthias Kern, Matthias Blüher and 8 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Caveolae mechanics in cellular functions and disease.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  4. Heterogeneity, dynamics and organelle interactions of lipid droplets.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  9. Nitrosation of CD36 Regulates Endothelial Function and Serum Lipids.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2025
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  16. The Role of Membrane Lipids in the Formation and Function of Caveolae.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Claudia MatthaeusCrystallography, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany; claudia.matthaeus@nih.gov oliver.daumke@mdc-berlin.de.
Ines LahmannSignal Transduction/Developmental Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Séverine KunzElectron Microscopy Core Facility, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0131-3506
Wenke JonasExperimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, 14558 Nuthetal, Germany.
Arthur Alves MeloCrystallography, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Martin LehmannDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Elin LarssonIntegrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
Richard LundmarkIntegrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
Matthias KernDepartment of Medicine, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Matthias BlüherDepartment of Medicine, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Hannah OlschowskiHeidelberg University Biochemistry Center, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Julian KompaHeidelberg University Biochemistry Center, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Britta BrüggerHeidelberg University Biochemistry Center, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Dominik N MüllerExperimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Volker HauckeDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Annette SchürmannExperimental Diabetology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, 14558 Nuthetal, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4113-4377
Carmen BirchmeierSignal Transduction/Developmental Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Oliver DaumkeCrystallography, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany; claudia.matthaeus@nih.gov oliver.daumke@mdc-berlin.de.
Max Delbrück Center · DEHeidelberg University · DEDeutsches Diabetes-Zentrum e.V. · DELeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie · DELeipzig University · DEUmeå University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eps15-homology domain containing protein 2 (EHD2) is a dynamin-related ATPase located at the neck of caveolae, but its physiological function has remained unclear. Here, we found that global genetic ablation of EHD2 in mice leads to increased lipid droplet size in fat tissue. This organismic phenotype was paralleled at the cellular level by increased fatty acid uptake via a caveolae- and CD36-dependent pathway that also involves dynamin. Concomitantly, elevated numbers of detached caveolae were found in brown and white adipose tissue lacking EHD2, and increased caveolar mobility in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. EHD2 expression itself was down-regulated in the visceral fat of two obese mouse models and obese patients. Our data suggest that EHD2 controls a cell-autonomous, caveolae-dependent fatty acid uptake pathway and imply that low EHD2 expression levels are linked to obesity.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological TransportCarrier ProteinsCaveolaeCell MembraneFatty AcidsHeLa CellsHumansLipid DropletsLipid MetabolismMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutCarrier ProteinsEHD2 protein, humanEHD2 protein, mouseFatty AcidscaveolaeEHD2 ATPasefatty acid uptakelipid metabolismobesity

Identifiers

PMID32170013
PMCPMC7132307
OpenAlexW3011389725

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