Coated pits, coated vesicles, and receptor-mediated endocytosis.

Nature, 1979/6/21;279(5715):679-85.

Goldstein JL, Anderson RG, Brown MS

PMID: 221835

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Abstract
Proteins and peptides can enter cells by receptor-mediated endocytosis, a coupled process by which selected extracellular proteins or peptides are first bound to specific cell surface receptors and then rapidly internalised by the cell. Internalisation follows clustering of the receptors in specialised regions of the cell surface called coated pits that invaginate to form intracellular coated vesicles. It is now recognised that receptor-mediated endocytosis has a fundamental role in the growth, nutrition and differentiation of animal cells.
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