Immuno-electron tomography of ER exit sites reveals the existence of free COPII-coated transport carriers

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 377-383

  Zeuschner, Dagmar ^a   Geerts, Willie J C ^b   van Donselaar, Elly ^a   Humbel, Bruno M ^b   Slot, Jan W ^a   Koster, Abraham J ^b   Klumperman, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN COMPLEX II; SNARE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; COATED VESICLE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSPORT VESICLE;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELLS, CULTURED; COP-COATED VESICLES; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GOLGI APPARATUS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; R-SNARE PROTEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33645723490     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1371     Document Type: Article

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