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COPII vesicle coat 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
Mediates formation of the membrane vesicles that export newly synthesised proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum. Upon exchange of GDP for GTP (catalysed by SEC12), SAR1 exposes an N-terminal amphipathic helix that inserts into the outer ER membrane leaflet, promoting curvature. SAR1 recruits SEC23/24 to the membrane to form the inner layer of the COPII coat. SEC24 binds transport cargo while SEC23 interacts with SAR1 and recruits the outer COPII components (SEC13/31) that form a cage around the vesicle by self-assembling into a polyhedron. SEC16 may also be required for proper COPII coat assembly but its role has not been clearly defined.
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.

regulation of transport, endoplasmic reticulum, organelle