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Review
. 2004 Apr;14(2):147-53.
doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2004.02.002.

A structural view of the COPII vesicle coat

Lincoln C Bickford  1 , Elena Mossessova, Jonathan Goldberg
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Review

A structural view of the COPII vesicle coat

Lincoln C Bickford et al. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2004 Apr.

Abstract

The COPII vesicle coat coordinates the budding of transport vesicles from the endoplasmic reticulum in the initial step of the secretory pathway. The coat orchestrates a sequence of events including self-assembly on the membrane, cargo and SNARE molecule selection, and deformation of the membrane into a bud to drive vesicle fission. Recent molecular-level studies have helped to explain how the three components of yeast COPII - Sar1 GTPase, the Sec23/24 subcomplex and the Sec13/31 subcomplex - combine to organize this complex process.

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