Piecing Together the Patchwork of Contact Sites

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 214-229

  Gatta, Alberto T ^a   Levine, Tim P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biological transport; intracellular membranes metabolism; membrane lipids metabolism; nonvesicular traffic; vesicular transport

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET;

ANCHORING JUNCTION; AUTOPHAGOSOME; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CONTACT; CELL INCLUSION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLOROPLAST; ENDOSOME; HUMAN; INNER MEMBRANE; LYSOSOME; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PEROXISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGOSOMES; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANELLES;

EID: 85000897607     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2016.08.010     Document Type: Review

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