The COPII cage: Unifying principles of vesicle coat assembly

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 727-738

  Gürkan, Cemal ^a   Stagg, Scott M ^b   LaPointe, Paul ^b   Balch, William E ^b  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; BREFELDIN A; COAT PROTEIN COMPLEX II; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXOCYTOSIS; GOLGI COMPLEX; HOMEOSTASIS; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TRANSPORT VESICLE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COP-COATED VESICLES; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33749005392     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2025     Document Type: Review

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