Assembly units of clathrin coats
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 289 (5796), 420-422
- https://doi.org/10.1038/289420a0
Abstract
Clathrin, a polypeptide of MW 180,000, is the main constituent of the polygonal network that forms the coat of coated pits and vesicles; these vesicles play a part in intracellular transport between membranous organelles. Purified [calf brain] clathrin coats dissociate reversibly into triskelions, structures composed of 3 usually bent, flexible legs radiating from a center. The MW of these triskelions was determined and they contain trimers of clathrin together with about 3 light MW polypeptide chains.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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