PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Mahaveer Singh II AU - Hemant Jadhav AU - Mahaveer Singh TI - Title:Dynamin Functions and Ligands: Classical Mechanism Behind AID - 10.1124/mol.116.105064 DP - 2016 Jan 01 TA - Molecular Pharmacology PG - mol.116.105064 4099 - http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/early/2016/11/22/mol.116.105064.short 4100 - http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/early/2016/11/22/mol.116.105064.full AB - Dynamin is a GTPase, which plays a vital role in clathrin dependent endocytosis and other vesicular trafficking processes. Dynamin acts as scissor with debatable mechanism for newly formed vesicles originating from plasma membrane. Dynamin related proteins are important components in scission of various organelles such as clathrin coated vesicles, phagosomes and mitochondria, etc. helping in organelle division, viral resistance and mitochondrial fusion/division. Dysfunction and mutations in dynamin have been implicated in various disorders, where endocytic trafficking is involved, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, Charcot-Marie Tooth disease, Heart failure, Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, Cancer, Optic atrophy, Down syndrome, Osteoporosis etc. This review is an attempt to illustrate the dynamin related mechanism involved in these disorders and to help medicinal chemist in designing novel agents as dynamin ligands.