clathrin-coated pit
A part of the endomembrane system in the form of an invagination of a membrane upon which a clathrin coat forms, and that can be converted by vesicle budding into a clathrin-coated vesicle. Coated pits form on the plasma membrane, where they are involved in receptor-mediated selective transport of many proteins and other macromolecules across the cell membrane, in the trans-Golgi network, and on some endosomes.
GO:0016020
membrane
is_a
GO:0012505
endomembrane system
part_of
coated pit
exact
SPAC31A2.09c SPBC19F8.03c SPBP16F5.07 SPBC691.03c SPBC2G2.06c SPBC685.04c