Vesicle tethering: TRAPPing transport carriers.
Transport vesicles must dock with the appropriate acceptor membrane to ensure faithful protein delivery. Recent work identifies some of the molecular mechanisms that contribute to the specificity of this reaction.
Miller
Elizabeth A
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Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA. em2282@columbia.edu <em2282@columbia.edu>
D022181:COP-Coated Vesicles / Q000378:metabolism*; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D021381:Protein Transport / Q000502:physiology; D050600:SNARE Proteins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*
D008565:Membrane Proteins; D050600:SNARE Proteins; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins; C406327:transport protein particle, TRAPP