exocytosis
A process of secretion by a cell that results in the release of intracellular molecules (e.g. hormones, matrix proteins) contained within a membrane-bounded vesicle. Exocytosis can occur either by full fusion, when the vesicle collapses into the plasma membrane, or by a kiss-and-run mechanism that involves the formation of a transient contact, a pore, between a granule (for example of chromaffin cells) and the plasma membrane. The latter process most of the time leads to only partial secretion of the granule content. Exocytosis begins with steps that prepare vesicles for fusion with the membrane (tethering and docking) and ends when molecules are secreted from the cell.
GO:0016192
vesicle-mediated transport
is_a
GO:0032940
secretion by cell
is_a
nonselective vesicle exocytosis
related
vesicle exocytosis
exact
SPAC18G6.03 SPAC6G9.11 SPAC23H4.01c SPAC19A8.01c SPCC23B6.01c SPAC688.07c SPAC6F12.08c SPAC821.12 SPAC1F5.05c SPAC1B3.11c SPBC106.20 SPAC9E9.07c SPCC1183.01 SPAC26F1.01 SPBC26H8.02c SPCC622.10c SPAC607.10 SPAC23C4.10 SPAC17G8.12 SPCC4G3.09c SPBC1289.04c SPBC23G7.08c SPCC970.09 SPAC13F5.06c SPBC1773.09c SPCC825.03c SPAC110.03 SPAC11E3.02c SPAC23C4.08 SPCC1235.10c