Endocytosis (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Endocytosis

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After coated vesicles pinch off from the plasma membrane, a rapid uncoating reaction, shown here, disassembles the clathrin scaffold and releases a nascent endocytic vesicle that will fuse with endosomes and deliver its cargo for further sorting along the endosomal/lysosomal pathway. Prepared by Janet Iwasa and Tom Kirchhausen, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.

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