Term Information

Accession

GO:0006897

Ontology

biological process

Synonyms

related: nonselective vesicle endocytosis

exact: plasma membrane invagination

exact: vesicle endocytosis

alt_id: GO:0016193

alt_id: GO:0016196

Definition

A type of vesicle-mediated transport in which cells take up external materials or membrane constituents by the invagination of small region of the plasma membrane to form a new membrane-bounded vesicle. [source: GOC:mah, ISBN:0198506732, ISBN:0716731363]

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External References

InterPro (3)

• IPR012320
• IPR012466
• IPR017108

MIPS_funcat (1)

• 20.09.18.09.01

Pfam (1)

• PF07933

PIRSF (1)

• PIRSF037096

PROSITE (1)

• PS51070

SP_KW (1)

• KW-0254

Wikipedia (1)

• Endocytosis

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