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clathrin, n. Molecular Biol.
Brit. |ˈklaθrɪn|, U.S. |ˈklæθˌrɪn|
[‹ classical Latin clāthrātus (see clathrate adj.) + -in suffix1.]
A protein with a cagelike molecular structure that forms the major part of the coat of some coated pits and the coated vesicles.
1975B. M. F. Pearse in Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 97 98 The 180,000 molecular weight protein is likely to be an important example of a class of proteins involved in membrane movement, and I propose that it be called ‘clathrin’. 1984New Phytologist 98 632 Clathrin-coated alveolar and uncoated vesicles are characteristic of the contractile vacuole region. 1992C. A. Smith & E. J. Wood Biosynthesis ix. 191 The LDL-receptor complex is then internalized by endocytosis, the membrane protein clathrin playing a prominent role in this action. 2000W. M. Becker et al. World of Cell (ed. 4) xii. 340/1 The most studied coat proteins are clathrin, COPI, and a pair of proteins called COPII proteins. (COP is an abbreviation for ‘cytosolic coat protein’.) |