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Clathrin complex Overview

GO Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.


Summary
Building block of the polyhedral coat of coated pits and vesicles, forming a polymeric mechanical scaffold on the vesicle surface. Clathrin-coated vesicles participate in selective protein transport processes from the plasma membrane and the Golgi complex, including endocytosis, sorting of newly made lysosomal proteins, secretory granule formation and localization of certain Golgi membrane proteins.
GO Slim Terms

The yeast GO Slim terms are higher level terms that best represent the major S. cerevisiae biological processes, functions, and cellular components. The GO Slim terms listed here are the broader parent terms for the specific terms to which this gene product is annotated, and thus represent the more general processes, functions, and components in which it is involved.

structural molecule activity, cellular component assembly, protein-containing complex assembly