Term Information

Accession

GO:0005905

Ontology

cellular component

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Definition

A part of the endomembrane system in the form of an invagination of a membrane upon which a clathrin coat forms, and that can be converted by vesicle budding into a clathrin-coated vesicle. Coated pits form on the plasma membrane, where they are involved in receptor-mediated selective transport of many proteins and other macromolecules across the cell membrane, in the trans-Golgi network, and on some endosomes. [source: GOC:mah, ISBN:0198506732, PMID:10559856, PMID:17284835]

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External References

SP_KW (1)

• KW-0168

SP_SL (2)

• SL-0069
• SL-0072

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